Wine Products
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Argentine
In the 20th century, the development and fortunes of the Argentine wine industry were deeply influenced by the economic influences of the country. In the 1920s [...]
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Canada
Canadian wine has been produced for over 200 years. Early settlers tried to cultivate Vitis vinifera grapes from Europe with limited success. They found it necessary to focus [...]
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Chile
European Vitis vinifera vines were brought to Chile by Spanish conquistadors and missionaries in the 16th century around 1554. Local legend states that the conquistador [...]
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Germany
Germany produces wines in many styles: dry, semi-sweet and sweet white wines, rose wines, red wines and sparkling wines, called Sekt. (The only wine style not commonly [...]
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Greece
The origins of wine-making in Greece go back 6,500 years and evidence suggesting wine production confirm that Greece is home to the second oldest known grape wine [...]
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Hungary
Only two European languages have words for wine that are not derived from Latin: Greek and Hungarian. Records carved in a Runic alphabet used by ancient Hungarians [...]
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Italy
Although wines had been elaborated from the wild Vitis vinifera grape for millennia, it wasn't until the Greek colonization that wine-making flourished [...]
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Lebanon
Vitis vinifera evidence from ancient Rome shows wine was cultivated and then domesticated in Lebanon, at least two thousand years before Alexander the Great [...]
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New Zealand
In the 1970s, Montana in Marlborough started producing wines which were labelled by year of production (vintage) and grape variety (in the style of wine producers in Australia). [...]
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South Africa
The roots of the South African wine industry can be traced to the explorations of the Dutch East India Company which established a supply station in what is now [...]
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Spain
Vitis vinifera Under Roman rule, Spanish wine was widely exported and traded throughout the Roman empire. The two largest wine producing regions at the time [...]
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United States of America
The first Europeans to explore North America called it Vinland because of the profusion of grape vines they found. The earliest wine made in what is now the United States [...]
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