The Wines of Southwest U.S.A.: A Guide to New Mexico, Texas, Arizona and Colorado

Few would associate America’s frontier states with wine. And yet it is here that the country’s first Vitis vinifera vines are said to have been planted. Since the 1970s the wine industries of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado have evolved. This book takes each state in turn, focusing on growing conditions, key issues and prominent producers.

Although Vitis vinifera vines have been grown in the American southwest for nearly 400 years, its modern wine era only really began with the new p...