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Some wineries managed to survive by making wine for religious services. However, grape growers prospered. Because making up to 200 US gallons (760 L) of wine at home per year was legal, such production increased from an estimated 4,000,000 US gallons (15,000,000 L) before Prohibition to 90,000,000 US gallons (340,000,000 L) five years after the imposition of the law.
By the end of the century, the state was second to California in wine production. [6] In the late 19th century, the phylloxera epidemic in the West and Pierce's disease in the East ravaged the American wine industry. [4] Prohibition in the United States began when the state of Maine became the first state to go completely dry in 1846.
Wine production and consumption increased, burgeoning from the 15th century onwards as part of European expansion. Despite the devastating 1887 phylloxera louse infestation, modern science and technology adapted and industrial wine production and widespread consumption now occur throughout the world.
The Florida Wine Grape Growers Association (FWGGA) was established in 1923. In the 1930s, researchers at the University of Florida helped develop new hybrid grape varieties from the indigenous Muscadine to be more ecologically suitable for Florida's climate, including Blanc du Bois , Stover , Swanee , Daytona , Orlando Seedless and Miss Blanc .
Over 2,000,000 gallons of wine were produced in 2021 making it the fourth-largest wine producing state in the nation. [10] That puts Texas behind California, Washington, and Oregon respectively. Mesa Vineyards was the largest wine producer in the state with 500 acres (200 ha) planted near Fort Stockton in West Texas.
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One such policy, implemented in the early 20th century, effectively erased a Japanese presence in the California wine industry, along with what could have been strides forward for domestic winemaking.
California wine has a long and continuing history, and in the late twentieth century became recognized as producing some of the world's finest wine. While wine is made in all fifty U.S. states, up to 90% (by some estimates) of American wine is produced in the state. California would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world if it were ...