Are European and American winemaking styles getting becoming more similar?

Are European and American winemaking styles getting becoming more similar?

Dennis Overstreet (Wine Expert) gives expert video advice on: How can wine be categorized?; How do Americans and Europeans see wine and winemakers differently?; How is winemaking different in America and Europe? and more...

The old world is in using traditional things. Even to the point of that they have moved to organic, where that they believe that pesticides, and they believe that fertilizers will destroy the soil, will deplete it. Where you grow and use something, you work at something 24 hours and do not give it a rest, it will take all the nutrients, all the magic out. The New World is where that we want to use technology to assist and even to the point of hydro planting that we do not even need soil. We just add things to water and grow things. This is technology. Without saying that one should take a side to either one, there is something in between. But the old world it seems like it is getting balkanized. Just like in the world of politics today, we are balkanizing. The old world is becoming more fundamentalist, and saying that listen, we should almost go back to astrology, planting under the moon, putting ground up corn into the soil to rejuvenate it, that pesticides should not be allowed. The new world is moving to another era of technology. We can do things, when you walk into wineries like Newton and such, they make you put on new shoes, they make you put on your white lab coat. That we cannot have anything that could possibly, I do not know if we are manufacturing work or if we are in the old world, where we are doing things naturally. And this is the argument.