Christopher Beros
Director, Greater China & Southeast Asia at California Wine Institute; wine industry veteran who founded California-China Wine Trading and works to promote California wines across Asia.
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Jun 21, 2026
AntoineHOST
Yeah.
Christopher BerosGUEST
And these Spanish missionaries came in and they started going north and they built missions along, along the way.
Christopher BerosGUEST
And, um, as they went, they brought what are called mission grapes, and those were the first wines that were made in California.
Christopher BerosGUEST
They were made, uh, originally for sacramental, for religious purposes, but then people started drinking wine.
Christopher BerosGUEST
And so California actually started producing a lot of wine and, and there were a couple of important people who came and, and brought cuttings from Europe and elsewhere.
Christopher BerosGUEST
And so the, the industry started to flourish, and by the late, uh, 1800s, um, it was doing, it was doing actually fairly well.
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AntoineHOST
Okay.