Wine Regions – Going Around The World With Your Palette

By on November 5th, 2011

Wine may have been with us for over 8,000 years, but France was the center of all things wine until roughly 40 years ago. France still produces excellent wines, but so do many other locations across the planet. You can experience them by sampling reds and whites from each and comparing the different offerings.

The French know wine and the world acknowledged as much. While you could find wines in other areas like Italy, nobody could challenge the quality of the wine in France. Well, at least that was the prevailing opinion until a certain blind tasting happened. The Judgment in Paris in the late 1970s showed that other regions, in this case California, could produce quality wines as well. Wine experts were unable to distinguish between French and California wines and actually gave their highest marks to a California vintage. The world of wine was forever to be changed.

The importing of wine vines and knowledge around the world led to an explosion of wine producing regions. Modern agricultural practices and mechanisms helped further the cause as well. Before you knew it, Argentina was producing wine that compared nicely to some of the better known regions. In fact, many countries were producing quality wine that had never done so before.

A fun thing to do is to gather the wine drinkers amongst your friends and family. Every week or month, hold a wine tasting party focused on wines from a particular region. Hand out wine journals so you can keep notes on the vintages so that comparisons can be made. Slowly, but surely, work your way across the world of wines. The goal isn’t so much to identify the “best” wines as it is to expose yourself to new and interesting variations.

What are the key wine regions in these modern times? Well, the standard bearers like France, Italy and California are still at the top of the heap. That being said, make sure to try wines from South Africa, Chile, Australia and Argentina as well. You just might discover a wine you can’t stop talking about!

Thomas Ajava writes for Nomad Journals – where you can buy wine journals that make great wine gifts for friends and family as well as wine tasting parties and trips.

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