California and Italian wines

[wondersofwine]

Seems to be too broad a question. California wines are made in a variety of styles. Probably Italian wines are too. Some people do refer to New World wines and Old World (European) wines but I would not be bold enough to speak in generalities on the subject. At one time it may have had inferences to European wine spending time in wood vats and oak barrels and California wines going into stainless steel vats, but now many (perhaps too many) CA wines are aged in new oak barrels. California vintners may have been more inclined to filter wine in the past, but now some, like Robert Mondavi, do less filtering.