Northern California, France, and Italy would like to have a word with whoever makes this assertion.

Because wine can't come from everywhere.

Bathia_Mapes: kmmontandon: Northern California, France, and Italy would like to have a word with whoever makes this assertion.

As would Oregon.

Washington State here and I'm wondering wtf the blogger is talking about. As was mentioned, some regions aren't known for good wine grapes but this clearly is a personal issue for this guy.

Trust me, don't pass up on the Mississippi Muscadine for your next fine meal.

Because people think local food is better but most local wine people usually think is bad.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Every microbrewery everywhere frowns at this article's shenanigans.

Do microbrews usually use local hops?

But you'll find that nasty ass Sam Adams crap in every place you go to. Even stuff on the menu has "Sam Adams" glaze or something like it.

Restaurants in this area don't have any food that's local unless they bought some of the ingredients at the local grocery store who got it from some other place in the country.

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Gee, a stay at home mom from South Jersey doesn't know why more restaurants in her area serve local wines.


"Should we have the Camden Cabernet or the Meadowlands Merlot?"

There's a "fruit winery" just up the road from me.

Their stuff tastes like someone threw a car air freshener in a blender.

Bathia_Mapes: Maybe that's because not all locales are suitable for growing wine grapes.

This

I suspect the author has a New Yorker view of the US.



There are entire swaths of the continent outside their recognition.

I'll bet she thinks corn just shows up, with the stork that brought her baby sister.

Vermont does both.
Local for the win.

Honestly, my favorite merlot is from Forks of the Cheat in West Virginia. Grapes grow everywhere. And I think most of those people who taste "hints of nutmeg and cinnamon" in a beverage are lying.

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Not a huge fan, but some of it is quite good. I'm never going to give up the Astley white wine....

/seriously, I have a bottle in the fridge right now

Because the wine around here sucks.

Finger Lakes, New York.

In what part of Napa is Boone's Farm?

AbbeySomeone: Washington State here and I'm wondering wtf the blogger is talking about. As was mentioned, some regions aren't known for good wine grapes but this clearly is a personal issue for this guy.

Local food advocates have just as much grasp of reality as a Ron Paul supporters.

/Minnesota has locally made wine - and it sucks

Because, regardless of what local grape growers and local vintners might think, a lot of regional wines are just aren't that good. And the ones that are good are probably using grapes trucked in from CA, which pretty much undoes the "localness" and at that point, you might as well use the wines trucked in from CA.

I've tasted a lot of local wines and for the most part, they only do sweet white wines halfway decently. Most regional reds are rose or very sweet, incredibly light-body Pinot-style reds. Stuff that really doesn't go great with dinner. Dessert maybe.

I've had wine from south NJ and PA, and it's terrible, harsh, weak and acidic. You're not going to get locally sourced saki or vodka in south Jersey either so maybe you should seek out local beer (Yeungling is within about 100 miles or so at the very least) or cider (lots of orchards in NJ) instead? Sorry is common sense too common?

Bathia_Mapes: kmmontandon: Northern California, France, and Italy would like to have a word with whoever makes this assertion.

As would Oregon.

And Washington.

Well, if your local wine is shiat then do not serve it.

I sure wish we could get Ohio, NY and Pennsylvania wines down here in Florida.

tomWright: Bathia_Mapes: Maybe that's because not all locales are suitable for growing wine grapes.

This

I suspect the author has a New Yorker view of the US.

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There are entire swaths of the continent outside their recognition.

I'll bet she thinks corn just shows up, with the stork that brought her baby sister.

Can a locavore in Idaho just forgo the wine and drink vodka?

GAT_00: Because people think local food is better but most local wine people usually think is bad.

I tried several wines when I visited a friend in Carbondale, Illinois, but I'll be damned if I ever had one that tasted good. Too much like Boone's.

EbolaNYC: I've had wine from south NJ and PA, and it's terrible, harsh, weak and acidic. You're not going to get locally sourced saki or vodka in south Jersey either so maybe you should seek out local beer (Yeungling is within about 100 miles or so at the very least) or cider (lots of orchards in NJ) instead? Sorry is common sense too common?

This is a good point.

Maybe in NJ, not just apple wine, bu also a fruit wine made from blueberries would be better?

If you really want local, use what can grow locally, don't try to force crops that do not do well to grow locally.

Local food doesn't usually taste worse than non-local food. The same can't be said for wine.

ecmoRandomNumbers: Because a lot of people won't drink Château de Chattanooga.

Ha, I see what you did there

tomWright: EbolaNYC: I've had wine from south NJ and PA, and it's terrible, harsh, weak and acidic. You're not going to get locally sourced saki or vodka in south Jersey either so maybe you should seek out local beer (Yeungling is within about 100 miles or so at the very least) or cider (lots of orchards in NJ) instead? Sorry is common sense too common?

This is a good point.

Maybe in NJ, not just apple wine, bu also a fruit wine made from blueberries would be better?

Hard cider and applejack can be nice on occasion. I've never had any blueberry wine, though. Sounds interesting. :)

MD has a number of decent local wineries, though I know to get a full range of flavors they blend with CA wine often. (aka, certain grapes grow here well, but if you want a merot and a pinot and a zinfandel, it isn't going to happen).

There are restaurants that serve local wine, but half the time you can't even find it in liquor stores. End up having to buy directly from the winery.

Katie98_KT: MD has a number of decent local wineries, though I know to get a full range of flavors they blend with CA wine often. (aka, certain grapes grow here well, but if you want a merot and a pinot and a zinfandel, it isn't going to happen).

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