{"id":250639,"date":"2026-04-03T22:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250639\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:07:12","slug":"whos-afraid-of-american-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250639\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Who’s Afraid of American Wine?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If \u201cAmerican\u201d Doesn\u2019t Mean American Grapes, What Does It Mean?<\/p>\n

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April 3, 2026 \u2014 The California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG) has published a new article,\u00a0\u201cWho\u2019s Afraid of 100% American Wine?\u201d, examining the gap between consumer expectations and current federal labeling standards for American wine.<\/p>\n

Under existing rules, wines labeled \u201cAmerican\u201d may contain up to 25% foreign-origin wine with no disclosure required. The piece examines what that means for domestic growers, consumer trust, and the integrity of a label built over generations by American farmers, farmworkers, and winemakers.<\/p>\n

CAWG and Family Winemakers of California are co-sponsoring AB 1585 \u2013 Truth in Labeling of American Wine (Connolly and Ransom), with support from sixteen regional winegrape and wine associations across the state. The bill goes to its first committee before the California Legislature this month.<\/p>\n

The article also addresses opposition arguments and makes the case for why now is the right moment to act.<\/p>\n

About the California Association of Winegrape Growers
CAWG is a statewide nonprofit trade association advocating for California\u2019s winegrape growers to ensure the sustainability of the winegrape industry. CAWG promotes the industry\u2019s long-term success by advancing the adoption of sound public policies and fostering awareness and understanding of winegrape growers\u2019 contributions to the economy, environment, and California communities. Learn more at\u00a0cawg.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If \u201cAmerican\u201d Doesn\u2019t Mean American Grapes, What Does It Mean? April 3, 2026 \u2014 The California Association of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[111534,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-250639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-california-association-of-winegrape","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}