How is winemaking different in America and Europe?

How is winemaking different in America and Europe?

Old world, new world. Old world was the way things traditionally were done. They just did it because their fathers, their forefathers, had done it. It was through the experience of ‘this works, this doesn't'. New world had everything to do with bringing modern technology into play, which made wines that captured the imagination of the world, like fast food, without the pun along the way, because we're in a hurry. We did not like wines, or were told as fads go in, they were light, they were acidic. They didn't offer much character other than bouquet. We want things of substance. The new world wines especially dominated by what happened in California, Robert Mondavi. We got into the thing that here were wines that stood alone, that really dominated. There are trends that happen. The pendulum swings both ways, the old world was sort of hocus pocus by chance and magic.