1.   You have to carefully nurture the vines if you want them to produce good grapes.

2.   At present, French-American hybrid vineyards are usually thinned and pruned by hand to ensure a steady fruit load and a consistently good grape.

3.   But a good grape or fruit selection alone does not make a winery.

4.   Colombo has access to a variety of good Rhone grapes and from them, he produces a variety of intriguing wines.

5.   Historically, for American vintners, climate was the determining factor in producing good grapes.

6.   Not long ago, there was a surplus of good red grapes, even in prestigious viticultural areas of California, like the Napa Valley.

7.   The Boscainis learned how to cultivate the vines, produce good grapes, and eventually they made small batches of wine.

8.   The color comes from carbonic maceration, but the body comes from good grapes, whatever they happen to be called.

9.   There is most certainly a shortage of good grapes on the West Coast.

10.   To make good wines, you need good grapes and Joslin believes that conditions for growing wine grapes in the Livermore Valley are unique.