The US Alcohol and Tobacco Trade Tax Bureau maintains a list of approved wine grape names for use on labels by US vintners. Based on current regulations, a wine producer must follow these rules regarding the use of grape names on a bottle of wine: They may only use grape variety names approved by TTB. …
The “Judgement of Paris” in 1976 is widely understood to have shocked the wine world. The wine competition pitted the best Napa Valley vineyards with their counterparts in Bordeaux. The world was shocked because US wineries won both the wine and red wine categories. The white wine winner was the Chateau Montelena while the red …
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