51.   Most wine grapes are full of sugar when they are picked.

52.   Most grapes are grown for the family winery, but some are sold to Beringer, Kendall Jackson, Fetzer and other wineries.

53.   Nevertheless, grapes were still lost.

54.   Naturally, even unfermented grapes were ascribed stimulating properties.

55.   One distinctive grape is carmenere, an obsolete Bordeaux varietal that seems to thrive in Chile.

56.   Once, genuine excitement surrounded the shipment of the wine in mid-November, mere weeks after the gamay grapes were picked from the vine.

57.   Only Sonoma County grapes are used to make the six wines of Lambert Bridge.

58.   Once, the principal South African white grape was chenin blanc, known here as steen.

59.   So are grapes from young and older vines, from sandy and gravelly soils and from higher and lower areas.

60.   Some wineries go even further and identify the single vineyard from which their grapes were grown.