The US is now the 3rd biggest producer of wine sold in the UK after Australia and France. Like the rest of the New World, the rate of growth accelerated extraordinarily in the 1990’s Astonishingly, although vines are grown in every American state including Alaska, it is the bulk budget...
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One of the most successful wine producing areas in the Southern Hemisphere, Chilemade big inroads on the British market in the last decade as a source of great value wines. In Chile, now 5th in the league table of wine drunk here, production is mainly centred around the central valley,...
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The sleeping Giant of European wine the 7th largest producer of wine sold in theUK, with diverse wine regions scattered around the country and the biggest amount of hectares under cultivation than anywhere else in the world, giving it huge potential. The trend to move from over-oaked tannic...
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Although vines were planted by the original Dutch settlers and the Capewas celebrated in the 18th century for its legendary Constantia dessert wine, the modern South African wine industry only really got going in the early Nineties after the ending of years of apartheid and economic...
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A relative newcomer to the wine world it still only produces 0.3 % of the global crop – serious cultivation dates only from the Eighties. New Zealand’s reputation rests almost entirely on its remarkable white wines made from the Sauvignon Blanc grape. Kiwi wine makers, mainly in the...
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For several successive years, Australiahas over taken Franceas the biggest exporter of wine to the UK. Many of the original vines were planted by German immigrants in the 19th century and remarkably, their industry has achieved its aims of global prominence in less than 20 years mainly...
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Argentina has become the worlds 5th largest wine producer, and is becoming renowned for its ripe red wines made from the fashionable and food-friendly Malbec grape, once the dominant variety in Bordeaux. Argentina’s native grape Torrontes, also produces amazing, aromatic whites of real...
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