Real Women Drink Wine: Tasting Room Woes

California vintners push to open wine tasting rooms

RAMONA, Calif. (AP) — Don Cohorst has acres of vineyards, a stash of small-batch vintages and a barn he wants to turn into a cozy tasting room for vino-sipping visitors. He's convinced he can ply those wine lovers with samples of his Syrah and Muscat Canelli and sell them single bottles for as much as $20 — more than twice the price he now gets from several small retailers. But his plan and those of many other winemakers in California have been scuttled by a growing backlash among residents who don't want tipsy tourists weaving through their quiet communities, possibly putting locals at risk while increasing traffic congestion and noise.

What do you think? I personally would love to be able to walk to a tasting room, especially if they had good wine. I'm thinking I would negotiate free wine tasting for life in exchange for my conceding to letting the room open unopposed. You have to think outside the box people... Read the full story from the Associated Press here: article