The Beautiful Gate
Sir / Many cover story topics this past year have been depressing, transitory or unappealing. But with the story on American wine [Nov. 27], you struck oenological gold.
To me wine was always just wine, but the story was like a beautiful gate opening into a lovely vineyard.
JOHN J. PASSANISI
Hyde Park, Mass.
Sir / Your headline about "American Wine..." is most misleading. It turned out to be a grand plug for California wine, not the wines of America, or even the U.S. In your rapture about the California product you...