United States Consul Roosevelt at Bordeaux, has been making an exhaustive study into the wine industry of France. The result of his observations are summed up as follows, in a recent report to the State Department: "There is abundant expert testimony that as good wines can be produced in California as in France. Last year, while in the United States, I daily used California claret and occasionally while wine from the same State, and I do not hesitate to say that I found them superior to the same grade of wines commonly consumed here. It must be admitted that France at present produces finer wines than have yet been made in the United States, but this fact is entirely due to years of experience, exceeding care and the skill employed, and not, as is claimed by the French, to superior advantages of soil and climate. The wine industry in the United States has, owing to its wide latitude, as is attested by pure and agreeable wines produced in Virginia as well as in California, a brilliant future.

In view of this fact, there is no reasonable doubt that in time there will be brands of our native wines as famous and as much in demand as those of the celebrated wineries of France".