Wine Regions

With its varied terrain and climate, Chile is one of the major stars of the New World red wine scene. But although viticulture has been established here for centuries, it was only relatively recently that rest of the world began to sit up and take notice of Chilean wines. Today the country is famous above [...]

Think red wine-producing countries and chances are that China won’t be the first place that springs to mind. The country has not historically enjoyed a reputation for producing fine wines, but all that could be set to change. Red wine is increasingly seen as a ‘status symbol’ drink among Chinese high society and both consumption [...]

South Africa is considered part of the New World when it comes to wine production, not least because it emerged from isolation after the Apartheid era in fairly recent times. In fact, the history of wine production in South Africa stretches back as far as the 1600′s when it was first settled by the Dutch. [...]

For many it years it seemed as though New Zealand had always sneaked under the radar in terms of momentous contributions to the rest of the World but perhaps its biggest secret, as the likes of film director Peter Jackson went on to prove, was that this magnificent country has an immense landscape with a [...]