This is the first day that we are recognized by the government as an official, you know, wine-growing region.
Porter gives several (non-silicon) examples, including the wine-growing industry in northern California and the flower-growing business in the Netherlands.
Brazil's traditional wine-growing region, farther from the equator, has just one harvest.
While an Atlantic bay or a mountain valley may make attractively bucolic settings for a fresh foodstuff, the notion of a terroir, as in wine-growing, is misleading.
From one winery to the next along the back-country road that runs through Mendoza, the premier wine-growing region there, Bieler found full-bodied, ripe reds everywhere he looked.
Ms. LINDA REIFF (Executive Director, Napa Valley Vintners): We are aware that our position is different than the governments and than some other American producers, and that is we believe in respecting all wine-growing place names.
Ernest said to still be in charge, though Julio's granddaughter Gina has bulk of responsibilities, credited with pushing company into faster-growing premium wine markets.
Betting on the U.S. is significant--though Americans are still not, broadly speaking, wine drinkers, they're the fastest-growing market in terms of dollar sales.
China's wine production is relatively small but growing--730 million liters in 2005 compared with 2, 546 million liters for the U.S. and 898 million liters for Germany.
McCARTHY: A long-held theory among wine aficionados is that growing quality grapes closer to the equator than 30 degrees latitude is impossible.
Le French GourMay (until 31 May), and this year it is Burgundy in east-central France, one of the oldest wine growing regions in the country.
The idea of raising cashmere goats came to the Al-Rafiqs, who had also considered growing grapes for wine and raising miniature horses, after Ajamu heard a promotion for a National Public Radio spot about the subject.
Both countries have big-league wine industries (Argentina's is the world's fifth-largest), nearly 500 years of vintages, and growing areas with Eden-like climates for farming wine grapes--so warm and dry that grapes easily ripen and pesticides, fungicides, and anti-rot measures are often unnecessary.
You've had the heirloom tomatoes and artisanal, grass-fed steaks, the small-production wine so perfectly translated from the soil you can almost taste the olive trees growing beside the vine rows.
SABMiller access to some of the world's fastest-growing beer markets at a time when drinkers in richer countries are ordering more wine and spirits.
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In the Hunter Valley 150 km (93 miles) north of Sydney, mid-January is harvest time in what has long been recognized as one of Australia's premium wine growing areas.
The 3-liter box of Black Box, the equivalent of four bottles of wine, is the leader in the fastest growing segment of the wine market.
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As the sun sets over the flurry of waterfront grill restaurants, locals and a growing number of tourists feast on giant seafood platters and drink malvazija, a wine grown here since pre-Roman times.
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