One man's wine, another's vinegar

There's a very insightful article in January 2007 issue of Wine Business Monthly by Bill Turrentine entitled The Competitive World of Wine .

The fact that Bill is the President of Turrentine Brokerage, a company founded in 1973 that sells grapes from independent growers to wineries, wines in bulk between wineries and which also helps export California wines and to import wines from around the world [sic], leads me to believe that he knows something about the subject.

Commenting this issue with Miguel in Napa, it turns out that we have very different reads of the same article. Though both of us find it interesting, he liked it because it speaks to the US winegrowers about globalization, while I enjoyed it because it highlights the opportunities that winegrowers abroad could capitalize.

I thought it would be interesting to contrast these two points of view and have asked Miguel to post his comments - yours are welcome