This holiday calls for New World bottles

The abundance of wild grapevines that greeted British, French, and Spanish explorers in the New World fueled the illusion that the Americas might constitute one vast, bountiful vineyard -- the Big Rock Candy Mountain of wine. But that was not to be the case. Native grapes proved useless for winemaking, and the vines from the Old World -- with the ... (Full article: 582 words)

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