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By the first 100 years A.D., wine was being exported from Italy to Spain, Germany, and France. It wasen't long before these countries ended up developing their own vineyards. Over the next few centries France had become the dominant producer of wines on the world market. Monastaries are known to have been reponsible for establishing several of the most sought after wines in the vineyards of France. Exploration and settlement brought wine to Mexico, Argentina, and South Africa in the 1500's and 1600's. Considered to be the father of the California Wine Industry, Jean-Louis Vignes planted the first European wine vines in northern California. He founded the Buena Vista Winery in 1857, which boasts 1,000 acres of vineyards in both Sonoma and Napa counties, and produces over half a million bottles of wine per year!
Made from fermented grape juice, wine is classified into 3 basic types: Natural, Sparkling, & Fortified. Natural wines may be Red, White, & Rose, and be classified in taste as Dry, Medium, or Sweet. Sparkling wines are given a 2nd fermatation in which added yeast eats up the sugar in the wine and produces carbon dioxide to give the wine a carbonated nature, much like soda pop. Tiny bubbles noticed in sparkling wines are from this natural process, while larger bubbles indicate carbon dioxide was added by machine. Fortified wines, such as Port, Sherry, Marsala, Vermouth, Maderia, Muscat, and Sangria, were made to have a longer shelf life. While there are spirits that are made from wine, the fortification process is created by when alcohol is added to the wine, thus killing the yeast before the fermintation process is completed, which leaves residual sugar. The higher levels of alcohol and sweetness help to preserve the wine longer. Wine is usually aged for several years in wood barrels, allowing the wood to influence the characteristics of the wine from taste, color, depth, complexity, and so on.
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Anderson Valley Vineyards
4920 Rio Grande Blvd Northwest, Albuquerque, NM 87107 Map
505 344-7266
Casa Rondena Winery
733 Chavez Road Northwest, Albuquerque, NM 87107 Map
505 344-5911
Gruet Winery
8400 Pan American Freeway Northeast, Albuquerque, NM 87113 Map
505 821-0055
New Mexico Wineries Inc
901 Rio Grande Blvd Northwest, Albuquerque, NM 87104 Map
505 243-9916
San Felipe Winery
3228 Calle De Estella Northwest, Albuquerque, NM 87104 Map
505 843-8171
Sandia Shadows Vineyard & Winery
8740 4th St Northwest, Albuquerque, NM 87114 Map
505 401-4380
Tierra Encantada Vineyards
1872 Five Points Road SW, Albuquerque, NM 87105 Map
505 764-9463
Los Luceros Winery
183 County Road 41, Alcalde, NM 87511 Map
505 852-1085
Corrales Winery
6275 Corrales Road, Corrales, NM 87048 Map
505 898-1819
Santa Fe Vineyards
18348 Us 84/285, Espanola, NM 87532 Map
505 753-8100
Balagna Winery
223 Rio Bravo Drive, Los Alamos, NM 87544 Map
505 672-3678
Ponderosa Valley Vineyard
3171 Highway 290, Ponderosa, NM 87044 Map
575 834-7487
Falcon Meadery & Winery
1572 Center Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87507 Map
505 471-3432
Santa Fe Vineyards
235 Don Gaspar Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Map
505 982-3474
Black Mesa Winery
1502 State Road 68, Velarde, NM 87582 Map
505 852-2820
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