Weekend Wine Notes: The Alcohol's as High as an Elephant's Eye....

... and, yes, friends, it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky.

What is this trope about table wines that bear the cloying impress of alcohol levels over 15 percent, even 16 percent and higher? Some winemakers in California seem to fall into the same camp as many producers of craft beer, who believe that the hoppier a brew is the better it is, i…