Stir up a little resistance, even. Your guide gives you the facts and throws out a challenge for a new restaurant review category which gives you a choice. I'm stunned and offended by the direction wine and its pricing is going today. I've been trying to reason through my reaction to decide whether I'm justified. After all, nothing could be better for the cultivation of wine as a part of American life than loads of good press and a voracious interest by new and old wine drinkers.
Higher prices are a response to the laws of supply and demand.
After all, a wine industry that is financially healthy benefits everyone. After all, the fates may not be so favorable in another 5 years. American wines have been forced to rely on the grape varietal as an indication of the wine style. It's a young industry and there hasn't been hundreds of years of tradition and natural selection that has yielded a Napa style or Mendocino or Long Island or Hudson or New Mexico, to name just a few. American's have wine growing regions but the experimentation and heavy borrowing from traditional European wine regions have yielded the greatest hodgepodge of wine styles and brand names know to mankind.