Wines of the USA: Are you getting more bang for your buck ?

The United States has confidently come of age as one of the world's top wine-producing nations. Its reputation may be founded on the global fame of Napa and Sonoma, but the U.S. is home to countless lesser-known wine regions producing world-class wines (obvious examples include Oregon's Willamette Valley and the New York Finger Lakes). 

Wine has been made in The States for around 400 years, but it is only in the last 40 that American wine really began to earn respect on a global scale, in 1976, also known as the Judgment of Paris, was a wine competition organized in Paris on 24 May 1976 by Steven Spurrier, a British wine merchant and his colleague, Patricia Gallagher, in which French judges carried out two blind tasting comparisons: one of top-quality Chardonnays and another of red wines (Bordeaux wines from France and Cabernet Sauvignon wines from Napa, California). With the U.S coming out on top in both red and white wines, one of the French judges demanded her vote to be cancelled stating you have just spat in the face of France, but this event well and truly cemented American wines and one of the world’s best. 

Things are certainly not slowing down with lots of excitement can be found up north in the cooler Washington state, at Cavavin we have a Bordeaux blend from the Airfield Estate vineyard called the Dauntless, Washington state this wine is full rich and savoury a perfect winter warmer.