We know that California, New York, Washington and Oregon are the top 4 US wine producing states. So, which is the 5th? I was shocked to learn that New Jersey is the 5th wine producing state in the US.
-- ================================================Do you like wine? Do you live in South Florida? Visit the MIAMI WINE TASTERS group at
anyone ever tried some alaskan wine?
It's on the internet, so it must be accurate. :-) Yeah, I'm suspicious of these stats. For example, I know that Hawaii produces some wine -- maybe not enough to count here, but still.... Also, I wonder what is counted as wine. Fruit (other than grape) wines? Mead? Fortified wines? Andy
Hm-m, I'd have guessed Virgina. Next time I'm in NJ, I'll have to search the lists for "local" wine.
Hunt
I'm suspicious of these data. I would have expected Missouri, Ohio and Virginia to be higher. I also find zero to not be credible for Hawaii, which has two wineries that I know of.
Tom S
I have a hard time believing any of the data. The first three states on the chart that don't have any wineries are Delaware, Hawaii, and Kansas. However, looking at the organization's own membership list shows wineries in all of those states. After this discovery, I didn't bother checking the rest of the data.
Tedeschi makes a pineapple wine and assorted others. At one time, I bought in a palette(56 cases) of it for Maryland. It cost about $10 to get to Grozingers or some other West Coast warehouse. We sold through the first shipment to a handful of stores. No reorders. The other wines they sent as samples were forgettable.
One enterprising store had a sign up that suggested that it was a great wine to drink with Maui Wowie. The store was located near a concert venue and some roadie came in and wanted 5 cases, which I hand delivered to the store. I won't say whether I inhaled or not the little gift the roadie gave me and the store's wine guy, but I remember doing serious damage to the store's deli department.......
It's possible that New Jersey is fifth, but on the Fine Living Network show, "Simply Wine", host Andrea Immer once claimed that Texas is actually the fifth largest.
Dan-O
Re: NJ there are a number of small wineries in NJ. See this book. It lists
15+ wineries. Unless someone like Manishevitz or Constallation is making bulk wine in the Garden State--Cal/Wash/Ore/NY/Pa/VA have to be producing more juice.My question is: does wine producing mean making of the wine and not necessarily growing of the grapes? If that is the meaning, sure NJ may be the 5th biggest wine making state, the tax breaks may be cheaper to grow it in NY or VA and make it in NJ. This would not be the first industry to play the tax break game ;-)
I have heard Missouri grows a lot of grapes (was ranked #4 or 5 in wine grapes grown about 2 or 3 years back) but it is turned into wine in the surrounding states.
I guess until we can find a reliable source, it is very debatable.
J~ ( > We know that California, New York, Washington and Oregon are the top 4
DrinksForum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.