New Grapes on the American Wine Scene
(World News Austria)

. A lot of us have observed that the TTB (Alcohol and Tobacco Trade and Tax Bureau of the US Federal Government) has been busy over the past few months approving and accepting applications for new American Viticultural Areas (AVAs). What might have skipped your radar, however, is that they are also hard at work reviewing and approving the list of grape varieties that are allowed for use on American wine labels as the identifier of a varietal wne. The list of grapes currently allowed for use on American wine labels contains about 420 grape varieties, with about another 80 sitting at the stage of being `administratively approved` but not quite yet past the stage of `final rulemaking.` For a...