The first French wine producer to set up shop in California was Georges de Latour, who founded Beaulieu Vineyard in the Napa Valley in 1903. Since then, French wine producers have played a part in the state’s viticulture. But why have so many flocked to buy American wine estates since 2013?
The modern wave began in 1973 when Moët & Chandon chose Napa Valley as the location of its second non-French sparkling wine facility, the first being in Argentina. Three years later, the Judgment of…
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