America

California is the main wine producer in the United States of America. Many a grape variety has found a new home there.

Blessed with a Mediterranean climate similar to France or California, Chile has the added advantage of being south of the equator. That puts their summers from November to March, allowing them to harvest wine during the off-season of many other countries. Time shifting allows them to satisfy the market when others can't.

Canada makes wine. Climate is a challenge and most of the territory is not suitable, nevertheless, Canada is producing some world class wines.

Long considered a producer of inferior wines, British Columbia is now being recognized as a winemaking powerhouse.

The early wine history of Argentina is similar to that for Chile both in time and the Spanish colonization.

Cornell University offers an advanced course titled 'Understanding Wine and Beer'. Topics covered range from the history of viticulture to the microbiology of fermentation to the neurobiology of taste, along with the expected lectures on chemistry, color and tasting methods. Clearly, the two most popular alcoholic drinks have arrived.

It started like this: I was 18 years old, on the beginning of a new life, in a new home, and too young to buy alcohol legally. The problem was, I really liked wine. I had been drinking it socially for years, but on someone else’s dime.

Caribbean food and culture were forever changed when the European traders brought African slaves.