| | Wine is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grapes or other fruit. Traditionally grapes were trampled by barefooted vineyard workers to produce a pulp, which was fermented with tannins and sulphides to produce a rich, fruity red drink. Today this process in most commercial vineyards is mechanized and soulless. The most notorious exemplar of this modern style is Australia's Yellow Tail, whose iconic [[kangaroo]] represents an idolatrous usurpation of the proper place of the ecclesiastical names and imagery common in traditional wine making regions like Pomerol (e.g., L’Evangile, Domaine de l’Eglise, La Croix de Gay, Oussau-Iraty, Saint-Nectairre, Le Cul de Diable). | | Wine is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grapes or other fruit. Traditionally grapes were trampled by barefooted vineyard workers to produce a pulp, which was fermented with tannins and sulphides to produce a rich, fruity red drink. Today this process in most commercial vineyards is mechanized and soulless. The most notorious exemplar of this modern style is Australia's Yellow Tail, whose iconic [[kangaroo]] represents an idolatrous usurpation of the proper place of the ecclesiastical names and imagery common in traditional wine making regions like Pomerol (e.g., L’Evangile, Domaine de l’Eglise, La Croix de Gay, Oussau-Iraty, Saint-Nectairre, Le Cul de Diable). |
| − | Wine is produced throughout the world. The top twenty leading wine-producing countries in order of total production are:<ref>[http://www.wineinstitute.org/communications/statistics/keyfacts_worldwineproduction02.htm]</ref> [[France]], [[Italy]], [[Spain]], [[United States of America|USA]], [[Argentina]], [[China]], [[Australia]], [[Germany]], [[Portugal]], [[South Africa]], [[Chile]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], [[Greece]], [[Russia]], [[Brazil]], [[Austria]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Yugoslavia]], and [[Croatia]]. Many of the best-known vineyards are in France, such as Chateau Moulin Rothschild, Chateau d'Amuse, Chateau d'Agneau de Christo, Chateau de Hennessy, Chateau de les Fruits de Mer, and many more. Most winemaking is centred in the Bordeaux region of North Eastern France. | + | Wine is produced throughout the world. The top twenty leading wine-producing countries in order of total production are:<ref>[http://www.wineinstitute.org/communications/statistics/keyfacts_worldwineproduction02.htm]</ref> [[France]], [[Italy]], [[Spain]], [[United States of America|USA]], [[Argentina]], [[China]], [[Australia]], [[Germany]], [[Portugal]], [[South Africa]], [[Chile]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], [[Greece]], [[Russia]], [[Brazil]], [[Austria]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Yugoslavia]], and [[Croatia]]. Many of the best-known vineyards are in France, such as Chateau Moulin Rothschild, Chateau d'Amuse, Chateau d'Agneau de Christo, Chateau de Hennessy, Chateau de les Fruits de Mer, and many more. Most winemaking is centred in the Bordeaux region of North Eastern France. Vineyards can be grown as far north as Midlands England and as far south as Senegal. |