The United States is the biggest wine market in the world. The country's wine production is mainly concentrated in the sun-bathed Golden State of California, which accounted for over 80 percent of the entire U.S. wine production volume. All told, there were over 11,000 wineries in the ...
California is comfortably the United States' largest wine region. Its wines only gained global renown in the past few decades, though the state's viticultural history dates back more than 200 years.
From those grapes California wineries produced over 500 million gallons of wine in 2004 at a retail value of $15 billion, with the majority of that coming from Northern California. The total US production was 668 million gallons. The overall impact of the California wine industry on the state...
Wine is the product of the fermentation of grape juice, in which yeast (a fungus) consumes the natural sugars within, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide as waste. Yeast grows naturally on many varieties of grapes, often visible as a white powder, and causing fermentation directly on the plan...
Increasingly, however, market recognition is based on the location of the wine production, resulting in labels such as Bordeaux in France, Napa Valley in California, and the Barossa Valley in Australia. Traditional wines made in these places carry trademarks, respected by serious wine drinkers. How...
Author(s): Heien, Dale; Martin, Philip | Abstract: The wine industry in California and the world is entering a new era, marked by consolidation and globalization. People are drinking less but better wine. Will producers of lower-priced grapes raise quality to attract more upscale wine drinkers...
Jordan Mingle, production manager,Miraflores Winery, El Dorado While the stay home order hasn't directly affected the operations of the cellar (i.e. topping, racking, and bottling) as we are considered essential agriculture, I have noticed a diminished interest in bulk wine purchases and requests...
s famous wineries supply the United States with 81% of its total wine production. So, when you are looking to enjoy the best of the best that the Golden State has to offer,California’s Wine Country region is the place to visit. With well over 1,700 vineyards in North Bay alone, ...
This paper explores the role of the wine industry, writ large, in place-making via a case study of the wine industry, from €grape to glass€, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California, which examines how wine production and consumption has influenced the sociocultural and physical€"...
The United States is home to many quality wine regions, though its global reputation still rides on the success of California and the Napa Valley in particular. Whiskey distilling and beer brewing are both integral parts of American culture.