The United States of America is the world’s fourth largest producer of wine and claims the world’s sixth highest acreage of land under vine.
California produces approximately 85% of all American wine, followed by Washington, New York, and Oregon. Compared with traditional wine-producing countries, the US has a large population, surpassing France in early 2011 to become the world’s largest wine consumer. Despite this, the US ranked only 62nd in per capita consumption by 2016, with just 30% of the population identifying as wine drinkers. In 2019, the US experienced its first decline in wine consumption in 25 years, as the industry lost market share to fast-growing categories such as canned hard seltzers, spirits, and craft beer. Still, the US continues to provide the world’s most substantial market for fine wines. Further, over the past 20 years, powerful American critics have had a significant influence on winemakers and markets worldwide.
In the early ninth century, the Viking Leif Eriksson brought his boat aground at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada, becoming the first European to definitively set foot on the North American continent. He christened his discovery Vinland—possibly a reference to the meadows before him or, as recounted in the 13th-century poem “Saga of the Greenlanders,” a tribute to the wealth of native grapevines. Unlike in South America, several species of wild grapevines awaited the first colonists of North America, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis aestivalis. Vitis vinifera, the source of fine wine
Glad you added Mexico in the content! I think there are other two important states to mention... Chihuahua and San Luis Potosí.
Chihuahua:
The biggest state of Mexico. Its a region mainly arid, but varies tremendously because of the altitude (average 1,600 mts above de sea). Soils are deep mostly gravel-clay. In the Sierra Tarahumara, handcraft wine has been made for centuries.
In last fifteen years at least half a dozen wineries had been seatled. Hacienda Encinillas is the most representative one. Located just 80 km from the capital y the Encinillas Valley producing several Bordeaux based blends labels.
San Luis Potosí:
Located south of Coahuila and east of Zacatecas, with average altitudes of 1,800 mts above sea level and 21°C-32°C temperatures and an anual 350ml precipitacion. With mainly clay soils and different altitudes, its an emerging wine growing potential area.
Important wine growing area include Moctezuma Valley, with an altitude of 1,630 meters above sea level and possess a desertic climate with average temperatures (since floration till harvest) up to 36 ℃ (96 °F) during the day and -2℃ (28 °F) during the night. Here is located Cava Quntanilla, one of the latest wineries in the counrty.
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