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[Thomas]

Quality is an individual wine matter, not a blanket concept, and so you can't make a blanket statement about which wine (import or domestic) is better or worse in quality.

As for accessibility: perhaps the California wines you have tried are accessible but again, you can't generalize about wine that way.

The best thing to do is to attend wine tastings, take notes and decide for yourself which wines you prefer. Over time, your tastes will shift (and you might not even notice) away from the wines you liked in the beginning to different kinds of wines. This happens almost invariably as your palate gets used to or adjusts to various tastes.