Wine 101: Old World New World

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Wine 101: Old World New World

We do a lot of talking here on “Wine 101” about wine being ancient. But it wasn’t necessarily grown everywhere way back then. Instead, there came a point when Europeans set sail and started colonizing vast portions of the globe, grapevines in tow. Many countries — including Chile, Argentina, Australia, South Africa, and what would later become the United States — actually started producing wine with European vines. However, different production …