Nearly every French winemaking region outside Champagne produces sparkling wine.

Spain produces close to one-third of all the wine in the world (as do Italy and France).

Portugal is smaller than Kentucky, yet is 10th in world wine production.

For so small a country (about the size of Colorado), New Zealand certainly has made a splash in the world’s wine glasses.

Italy—a country three-quarters the size of California—makes one-fifth of all the wine in the world.

If one good thing came from the years of Communist control in Hungary, it was to hew Hungarian winemaking to its traditions.

Three seas wash the shores of Greece—the Ionian, the Aegean and the Mediterranean—and they mean everything to the history of her wines and winemaking.

Let’s clarify one thing right away: Not all German wines are sweet. In fact, few are.

Chile is topographically unique. For a winemaker, such geographic isolation is ideal.

Year after year, California grapevines bask in this generosity. Their grapes ripen without fail and give voice to the saying that, in California, “Every year is a vintage year.”

For wine sippers and food lovers both, France is a resource as rich as a Carnegie's cupboard.

Along with Australia and the Americas, South Africa can correctly be thought of as a “New World” wine country (as distinct from “Old World” wine countries such as France or Germany).

No surprise that Washington State is renowned for growing great fruit—like wine grapes.