American wine American wine American wine has been produced for over 300 years. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 89 percent of all US wine. The United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after France, Italy, and Spain. The North American continent is home to several native species of grape, including "Vitis labrusca", "Vitis riparia", "Vitis rotundifolia", and "Vitis vulpina." But the wine-making industry is based on the cultivation of the European "Vitis vinifera", which was introduced by European settlers. With more than under vine, the United States is the sixth-most planted
Hunt Country Vineyards its Vidal Ice Wine, which is a dessert wine produced in colder wine regions when grapes are left on the vine late into the winter. The grapes are hand picked and pressed frozen, leaving the water behind as ice. The concentrated juice is then fermented to produce this intensely sweet dessert wine. The Vidal ice wine was featured on NBC's Today Show in 2006. Hunt Country Vineyards Hunt Country Vineyards is a vineyard and winery located near Keuka Lake in the Finger Lakes AVA region of New York State, USA. Hunt Country Vineyards was founded in 1981 by Arthur C.