Raisin Hell

The rant this time is about unfinished wines.
We get unfiltered, unfined, unbelievable even unique but UNfinished is a problem.
The majority of winemakers know how best to develop their relationship with their wines. Assiduous testing, tasting, measuring, topping, racking, blending, all designed to make the most remarkable product they can feel proud of.
Yet there are still some out there who expect us to drink their juice and rave about how great they are. No matter how nice you might be it's your wine that is causing offence. Well that leaves us in a bewildering predicament.
How many times have you tried someone's wine and immediately tried to find a dump bucket/floor space/ashtray/rose bush or whatever is closest to get that demon out of your mouth as quick as possible in the most polite of ways?
How many times are you encouraged to have another try before realising that this stuff is not going to get past the nail polish remover, no matter how much you swirl, the chlorine won't go away, no way that this juice has potential. Still this is a problem for some to get past and it's the 21st Century.
What about letting the buggar breathe only to find that the room stinks of yeasty beer instead of the anticipated violets and blackberries.
There is no excuse.
Spend a few extra bucks to get Vinquiry to check your wine out first before foisting it on an unsuspecting public and having the gall to charge $40 or $50 a bottle for it.
Most people are polite about having the taste of a mustangs' tailpipe in their mouth and don't want to upset THE winemaker.
There really is no excuse, especially for a winemaker who can get free tastings in all the wineries is Santa Barbara, or where ever. Taste what the competition is doing, compare, profile, work those senses and then go back to your own barrels and be discerning and be honest. *According to the San Diego City Beat "there are exactly 923,458 wineries in Santa Barbara County" so there are plenty of outlets to go to.
The moral of this rant is simple, raise your bar for yourself and don't raise hell when someone doesn't like what you are making.

*We have only 150 wineries listed on the SBWinemakers website that we believe to be a more likely number.