Ramona Valley in San Diego County is now officially an American viticultural area.

NPR: Ramona Valley: New American Viticultural Area

Scores are awarded for the correct identification of the wine's predominant grape variety, country of origin, viticultural region, subdistrict and vintage.

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Today two other wine-producing areas received their own appellations: the Wahluke Slope viticultural area in Grant County, Washington, and the Texoma viticultural area in north central Texas.

NPR: Ramona Valley: New American Viticultural Area

All of our major wine regions offer a variety of viticultural backdrops, from the splendor of Bordeaux to the ancient, cypress-lined hills between Florence and Siena.

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Cappadocia has one of the world's oldest wine industries, which stretches back some 4, 000 years to the Hittites, the first to recognise the volcanic soil's viticultural qualities, and to carve rock cellars.

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