WHEN I MENTIONED AN Oklahoma wine trip to my AWS San Luis Obispo chapter colleagues, they met me with responses varying around the theme of "why?" Why indeed! After reading cover to cover Leon Adams' first edition of Wines of America in 1973,1 was inflicted—my wife says obsessed—with the desire to visit all of America's wine regions. Oklahoma would make 46 states, so why not? Off I went. Almost overnight, mimicking in reality the overnight land runs of 1889, Oklahoma has gone from two wineries in 1997 to 17 today and probably well over 20 by the time this article sees print. Why the surge? There seems to be no single reason. However, certainly the encouragement afforded a small group of amateur winemakers by a favorable legislature seeking more tax dollars as well as pushing tourism is not to be dismissed.
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机译：当我提到到俄克拉荷马州AWS San Luis Obispo分会同事的葡萄酒之旅时，他们遇到了围绕“为什么？”主题的各种回应。为何如此！在读完封面以覆盖莱昂·亚当斯（Leon Adams）于1973年出版的第一版《美国葡萄酒》后，我的妻子说：“我痴迷”，希望游览美国的所有葡萄酒产区。俄克拉荷马州将进入46个州，为什么不呢？我走了。几乎是一夜之间，实际上是模仿1889年的夜间陆路航行，俄克拉荷马州已从1997年的两个酿酒厂发展到今天的17个酒厂，到本文发表时可能已经超过20个。为什么会激增？似乎没有单一的原因。但是，当然，一小撮业余酿酒师的鼓励无疑是由一个有利的立法机构寻求更多的税收收入以及推动旅游业来进行的。
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