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Great Wine Capitals

Actually, the Great Wine Capitals Global Network is an organization gathering cities, major business centers their country, and that are also in the middle or closely linked to internationnally renowned vineyards. The member cities thus share a common cultural and economic asset: the wines. This allows the members to share experience, to learn from each other, to develop their notoriety in terms of tourism, their business, their image on the international scale. Bilbao and Rioja have a lot in common in terms of wine business, like Porto being the shipping port for the Douro wines... And I'm sure you could not argue that Cape Town or Mendoza really are the wine capitals of their country... Catherine Leparmentier, Permanent Sercretary, Great Wine Capitals Global Network

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cleparmentier
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As was said previously, this is fairly meaningless especially in the US where wine centers are now scattered over the country. What cultural heritage do St. Helena CA share with Bilbao Spain?

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Lawrence Leichtman

Spam?

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ViLco

Probably, however, nobody in St Helena really drinks much anymore but the Spanish are legendary!

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Bi!!

You must go to different restaurants in St. Helena than I do.

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Lawrence Leichtman
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Anders Tørneskog
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Michael Pronay
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Michael Pronay

That's casual consumption of wine with meals not the kind of drinking I was refering to. The winemakers themselves don't drink like they used to.

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Bi!!

The Wein in Mainz stays mainzly in the Rhein.

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Mike Tommasi

Ah, that is true but many of them I know were alcoholics and should not have been drinking much at all.

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Lawrence Leichtman

My point exactly.

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Bi!!

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