I think your wine was the first real wine I have ever tasted. Eye opening experience 🍇🤝

Most people dont know the character of the wine comes from the skin, not the flesh.

do grapes grow slower at higher elevations like tea or coffee? 🤔

The sool nights definitely slows the ripening and changes the flavor

are there less bugs/pests up there too?🤔 random tea fact: in taiwan tea leaves grown at higher elevations are sought after because the leaves are more nutrient dense from growing slower, but there is specialized tea called oriental beauty (東方美人) which despite grown at lower altitudes holds high demand because it undergoes additional natural fermentation with bugs that feed off them leaving compounds that make the tea unusually sweet on top of the fermentation-drying process in oolong tea 🤓

Interesting! Yeah the winter cold and arid summer kill off most of the bugs that people around the country have to spray pesticides for

Exactly, altitude isn’t just scenery, it’s a natural UV lab. Thicker skins mean higher anthocyanins, more tannins, and complex phenolics. That’s why mountain-grown reds have depth you can’t replicate at sea level.