Domestic Vinyards Print E-mail

wine-grapes3.jpgWine in the United States (particularly the state of California), produce a wide variety of wines from inexpensive jug wines to high-quality varietals and proprietary blends. While most of the wine production in the Americas is based on Old World varieties, the wine growing regions of the Americas often have "adopted" grapes that are particularly closely identified with them as California's Zinfandel (from Croatia).


Until the latter half of the 20th century, American wine was generally looked upon as inferior to European product; it was not until the surprising American showing at the Paris wine tasting of 1976 (nicknamed the "Judgement of Paris" in the media) that New World wine began to gain respect in the lands of wine's origins.