Regional Wine Palates: East Versus West

If you’re a wine lover and you’ve lived all your life in New Jersey or Virginia, chances are you like Chianti. You know the good ones from the mediocre and don’t mind splurging every now and then for a Brunello di Montalcino.
If you’re a lifelong Californian wine lover, chances are you prefer richer, softer reds and don’t like Chianti very much—and you think Brunello di Montalcino is a Verdi opera tenor.
Where we were reared tells us much about what our wine preferences are, and that relates to U.S. transportation systems dating back generations—in some cases, all the way back to the end of Prohibition, whose 100th anniversary we’ll re-celebrate in just 11 more years!…

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