In 2023, Alaska produced about 172,000 gallons of this beverage, roughly 0.023 percent of the nation's output. In the Southwestern United States, its origins trace to Spanish mission vineyards planted in Las Californias and Santa Fe de Nuevo México. Which beverage category is it?

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American wine. American wine is produced in every US state, though California accounts for more than 80 percent of national output. Its origins in the Southwestern United States trace to 17th-century Spanish mission vineyards in what is now California and New Mexico.