National Prohibition Act was the law of the land from 1920 to 1933.
Finally when the National Repeal became effective the wine industry was in ruins.
Some wineries managed to survive by getting permits to make wine for medicinal and sacramental purposes, still wine production was at an all-time low.
Even after the Repeal in 1933, some states remained dry such as Kansas until 1948, Oklahoma until 1957, and Mississippi until 1966.
Some states chose to abolish free-market capitalism by creating monopoly liquor stores where they all looked alike and all had the same selections and merchandise and no frills.
This discouraged fine respectable women from shopping there.
Today 10% of the nation's area and about 6% of the population are still dry.
Some speculators and quick-buck tycoons started flooded the market with fast and poorly made wine to get ahead of the market.
Most Americans stayed away because of the poor-tasting products and not knowing the proper way to serve or with what type of food to serve with it.
Most made their own wine to have in their own household.
The only wine to survive after Repeal was desert wines.
The alcohol content was 20%, so most derelicts or drunks drank it for the cheapest intoxicant available.
Before 1920, there was over 2,500 wineries in America.
Less than 100 survived through the Prohibition by 1933.
Organized Crime became very successful and profitable during this time with the price of whiskey rising 500%.
More police officers were killed during this decade, 1920's, than in any other decade in history.
Due to the decay of respect for authority in this entire generation, causing deprivation of potential social and health benefits in wine.
Hence the term "wino" was brought into the streets, degrading the character of some Americans.
In spite of the political platforms, table wine has continued to grow in popularity.
Although American wine consumption is slated to become the number one wine consuming nation within this decade, until now more than 85% of the volume of wine is only drunk by 8% of the total population.
However, research in the past years has developed in agriculture and technology which has greatly improved the wine quality.
The stature of California and American wine has never been better and worldwide nations have taken notice.
Now with the growing attraction of "gentleman farming" lifestyles, becoming more and more popular, the wine industry has swelled to a total of 4,383 bonded US wineries in 2006.
Over the past ten years, social wine drinking has doubled, stealing the world's number two consumer spot from Italy and leaving France as the only country that drinks more wine than we do.
It is hard to believe that just forty years ago the bulk of American wine ended up in jugs labeled "Thunderbird" and camouflaged in a brown paper bag on many urban street corners.
Today all 50 states have wine industries and vineyards and consumption of our wine outweighs imported wine two to one.
Benjamin Franklin quoted: "The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation.
The universe is too full of stars.
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