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Food Science 470 Wine Appreciation Christian BUTZKE Professor of Enology Department of Food Science Wine Regions of Northern Spain and Portugal Wine Regions of Northern Spain and Portugal History Geography Statistics Growing areas Grape varieties Wine styles Iberian Peninsula ~ 1,000 BCE • Phoenicians established colonies, planted vines and made wines in Spain as early as 1,000 BCE History ca. 0100 History ca. 0100 History ca. 2014 History ca. 2006 -- Climate change is "severe and so sweeping that only urgent, global action" can head it off, a United Nations scientific panel said in a report on global warming issued Saturday, 11/17/07. CNN.com Featured Growing Regions Rías Baixas Duero-Porto Ribera del Duero Madeira Rioja Priorat La Mancha Jerez-Xérès-Sherry Grape Acreage Thousands of Acres REGION 2004/2000* 11.1. Spain Chile 2,995468 12.2. France Australia 2,210410 13.3. Italy Greece* 2,140323 14.4. Turkey Ukraine* 1,475313 15.5. China South 1,125293 Africa* 6. USA 976 16. Bulgaria* 278 7. Iran 713 17. Germany* 263 8. Portugal 610 18. Hungary* 228 9. Romania 575 19. Yugoslawia* 205 10. Argentina 525 20. Croatia* 148 Includes table grapes and raisins! EUROPE 11,978 WORLD 19,763 Wine Production Millions of Gallons REGION 2004 2000 1990 1. France 1,210 1,519 1,733 2. Italy 1,136 1,363 1,448 3. Spain 1,067 1,102 1,020 4. USA 539 616 417 5. Argentina 349 330 370 6. China 296 N/A N/A 7. Australia 285 214 116 8. South Africa 235 182 238 9.
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