Wine, etc.: Appellations: Confusing to consumers, important to producers | COMMENTARY

Consumers understand the difference between Napa and Sonoma, for instance, especially when they go to the cash register. But keeping straight the sub-appellations — especially when they overlap with other appellations — taxes the brain.

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