Wine Enthusiast Magazine

California's Best

U.S. consumers drink far more California wine than wine from any other place. This preference for drinking domestic is not unusual for a major wine-producing region; just ask the French, Italians or Spanish. For U.S. wine drinkers, California wine is often more accessible than imported wine and it is, of course, American-made, something we take pride in supporting.

California winemakers have been working their way to the top tier of the international quality pyramid for 40 years, and now have clearly arrived alongside historically renowned regions such as Burgundy, Bordeaux

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