A short history of wine making in California brought to you by the University of California at Davis (America's wine school).
The highlights from the article:
- The California missions, beginning in the 1700s, bringing in the Mission grape.
- The Gold Rush in Northern California in the mid-1800s with an influx of people to Northern California, including grape growers and winemakers from Italy and France.
- Prohibition, 1919-1933, when the tap was (mostly) turned off.
- Judgement of Paris, 1976, putting California on the world wine map.
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