2016

The year you master wine. A New Year’s Resolution, perhaps? You can learn about wine in 5 minutes a day by reading key parts of The Wine Bible. You could taste your way through all the Wines-to-Know. You could choose one country a month in The Wine Bible. Maybe even take a class with me. Make this year the year to #learnaboutwine.

What country has the most vineyard acres of cabernet sauvignon?

A. France

B. The United States

C. China

D. Chile

In fact, China has 148,263 acres (60,000 hectares) of cabernet sauvignon, about 20% more than the number two country France with 118,611 acres (48,000 hectares). Chile came in third at 106,255 acres/43,000 hectares and the U.S was fourth with 101,313 acres/41,000 hectares. OK, we’ll stop the list here since the next country is behind by 40%. Source: 2017 OIV (International Organization for Vine and Wine) Report.

“Living wines have ups and downs just as people do, periods of glory and dog days, too. If wine did not remind me of real life I would not care about it so much.”

2016

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