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The California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG) was established in 1974 as an advocate for California's wine grape growers, providing leadership on research and education programs, public policies, sustainable farming practices and trade policy to enhance the California wine grape growing business and communities. According to their ...
Vine-Glo was a grape concentrate brick product sold in the United States during Prohibition by Fruit Industries Ltd, a front for the California Vineyardist Association (CVA), from 1929. It was sold as a grape concentrate to make grape juice from but it apophatically included a warning with instructions on how to make wine from it. [ 1 ]
Struggling California vineyards are having to compete with bargain-basement wine prices from overseas growers, due to global oversupply. Global wine glut compounds headaches for struggling ...
Pinot Noir harvest, Central Coast Sonoma Caswell Park, V. californica, a wild type used as root stock and for §Breeding Rodney Strong Vineyards. The 2020 table grape harvest was worth $2.12 billion [1] while wine grapes brought in $1.7 billion, down 15.3% year-on-year.
In some areas, such as Germany, wine regulations dictate that the wine makers must label whether or not the wines are "natural," i.e. without sugar. Other areas, such as France, do not have such label requirements. [5] In the United States, federal law permits chaptalization when producing natural grape wine from juice with low sugar content. [13]
Cuttings from the vine of the "common black grape" (as it was known) brought to the New World by Hernán Cortés in 1520 were used to start the vineyards of Mexico. The grape's association with the church caused it to become known as the Mission grape, which was to become the dominant grape variety in California until the 20th century. [10]
Wines sourced from the county vineyards have unique qualities which make them easily distinguishable from vintages produced elsewhere in California or the world. All have intense varietal flavor as the true taste of the grape is reflected in the wine. In Monterey County, Chardonnay is the primary grape as it comprises 40% of total vine acreage.
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