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Mi e' sembrato che Emery Davis abbia scritto

Quote from the site: "wines made in the world's largest wine-producing country". Wasn't it France?

Wine Online agrees with Kate Singleton:

] On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:21:46 GMT, Vilco wrote: ] ] > Mi e' sembrato che Emery Davis abbia scritto ] > ] >> This Kate Singleton article in the IHT may be of some interest to ] >> readers. On "Italy's Elegant Organic Wines": ] >>

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There's been some backing-and-forthing between France and Italy, volume-wise. I had understood (as Vilco) that France was currently the volume leader. Jancis R. has figures from as recently as '97, with France at 52,612 million hectolitres and Italy at 50,847 million.

This numbers represent a non-linear shrinkage (hence the seesaw battle) of on the order of 15% in a decade.

I question the wineonline numbers, anyway. Italy has almost doubled capacity (to 95 million hl) in 8 years? France grown too, even while we see winery after winery go under here, and cheap volume vines are being ripped out as fast as possible? How about the global glut?

I guess I have more faith in Jancis as a reference. But Kate probably used an online source, she's not likely to have the big paper references.

-E