Alaska

Alaska, with its capital Juneau, is the largest state in the USA in terms of area with 1,717,854 km² (of which 1,481,346 km² is land). The territory was acquired by the USA from the Russian Empire in 1867 and became the 49th state in 1959. It borders the Canadian territory of Yukon to the east. There are thousands of lakes in Alaska, the largest of which are Becharof Lake (1,170 km²), Iliamna Lake (2,622 km²), Naknek Lake (585 km²) and Ugashik Lakes (200 km²).

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Although there are no vineyards, there is a wine producer. The "Denali Winery", named after a nearby mountain, was founded in 1997 by Judy Hall in Anchorage (62nd parallel), the largest city in Alaska. The business was taken over by Mike and Catherine Bessent in 2011. The company buys grape must mainly from California, but also from many other countries in 5-gallon units (about 20 litres). This includes an Icewine made from frozen Riesling grapes. The labels are decorated with various Alaskan wild animals (bear, eagle, moose, dolphin, etc.).

Some of these are sold together with a winemaking kit (small fermentation containers, yeast, wood-chips essence, other items) to private customers who use them to make their own home-made wine. However, grape must supplied by customers can be processed into wine in the desired form (e.g. barrique ageing).

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