"Leo Bueno" > skrev i melding
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> Below is my categorization of wine producing countries into "new" and
> "old" world.
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> I am having second thoughts about classifying Romania as a new world
> producer.
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Romania is possibly new to the world as a wine producer because it was a
closed country during communism, but they are not newcomers to wine...
You'll have to go back to something B.C. to find the beginning. By volume, R
is number 10 in the world.
Certainly Old world, like Lebanon.

New world are those countries that started later than 1700, say. I.e.
Australia, U.S.A., India, China, Argentina and so on.
There you find less set standards as to what to grow, where and how, not to
speak of using established names for their own products - like Sauternes in
New York (shudder...:-)
Anders