yeah, but the thread is also making other regions major players, or so it seems to me.
Chinese wine?
I don't really trust food or drink products produced in the PRC unless I've been able to do some research on the brand and ingredients.
Beyond wine, what about brandy and champagne? Many countries now make decent wine, but still nobody makes decent brandy and champagne except the French. Come on, everybody likes champagne.
Come to the finger lakes region of ny and say that. !!!I find it extraordinary the American east coast don't have a highly developed wine industry. The market is there, why is everything imported from Napa Valley and France? I was amazed how localized wine was in Switzerland where I have some relatives. They have a property by a lake and every family in that area own a micro vineyard with their own labels. My god I was opening eight bottles a day when I was over there.
Beyond wine, what about brandy and champagne? Many countries now make decent wine, but still nobody makes decent brandy and champagne except the French. Come on, everybody likes champagne.
I find it extraordinary the American east coast don't have a highly developed wine industry. The market is there, why is everything imported from Napa Valley and France? I was amazed how localized wine was in Switzerland where I have some relatives. They have a property by a lake and every family in that area own a micro vineyard with their own labels. My god I was opening eight bottles a day when I was over there.
Beyond wine, what about brandy and champagne? Many countries now make decent wine, but still nobody makes decent brandy and champagne except the French. Come on, everybody likes champagne.
How about a stronger wine industry in ex-URSS and around? It is forgotten at times, but countries like georgia had an OLD wine tradition.. as Victor up implied.
(How are those wines, BTW? I always wanted to taste what Stalin may have loved..)
As said before, Prohibition did a number on the East Coast wine industry.I find it extraordinary the American east coast don't have a highly developed wine industry. The market is there, why is everything imported from Napa Valley and France? I was amazed how localized wine was in Switzerland where I have some relatives. They have a property by a lake and every family in that area own a micro vineyard with their own labels. My god I was opening eight bottles a day when I was over there.
Beyond wine, what about brandy and champagne? Many countries now make decent wine, but still nobody makes decent brandy and champagne except the French. Come on, everybody likes champagne.
As I have stated in a previous post prohibition largely ruined the entire wine industry in the United States. California was just the first one to pick up after prohibition ended in 1933, first with cheap basic wines, later with quality wines as well. Before the prohibition some of the best wines in the United States were in fact produced in New York State and Ohio and in the last couple of years, those regions are experiencing somewhat of a renaissance in viticulture.
There are in fact some quite decent Spanish, Portugese, Italian, Greek and German brandies. As for sparkling wine, virtually every wine producing country also produces its own sparkling wine, among the better known are the Italian Spumante / Prosecco, Spanish Cava, German Sekt and Russian Krimskoye.