The Wine Blokes

Information on the wine regions of the world.

There is alot of talk at the moment about the massive growth of the wine industry of China (along with massive growth of everything else). The Indian Wine Industry however has quite a long and colourful history, from the time grapevines were imported from Persia, to British colonialisation, to prohibition of alcohol. But over the […]

India

Indian wine is wine made in the Asian country of India. Viticulture in India has a long history dating back to the time of the Indus Valley civilization when grapevines were believed to have been introduced from Persia. Winemaking has existed throughout most of India’s history but was particularly encouraged during the time of the […]

The Israeli wine industry has wineries numbering in the hundreds and ranging in size from small boutique enterprises making a few thousand bottles per year to the largest producing over ten million bottles per year.

 
Wine in Ancient Israel
Wine has been produced in the Land of Israel since Biblical times. The ancient land of Israel (known […]

We had some friends over for dinner the other night and and we tasted some nice Australian wines from the Adelaide Hills, but everyone has tasted them before and someone asked me if I had something a little unique or different in the cellar. I rember tasting some weird and wonderful wines from the Cornas […]

Vineyards in the Dry Creek Valley AVA in central Sonoma County

Appellation type
U.S. County

Year established
1850

Country
USA

Part of
California, North Coast AVA

Sub-regions
Alexander Valley AVA, Bennett Valley AVA,Chalk Hill AVA, Dry Creek Valley AVA, Green Valley of Russian River Valley AVA, Knights Valley AVA, Los Carneros AVA, Northern Sonoma AVA, Rockpile AVA, Russian […]

 
Slovenian wine is wine from the Central European country of Slovenia. Viticulture and winemaking has existed in this region since the time of the Celts and Illyrians tribes, long before the Romans would introduce winemaking to the lands of France, Spain and Germany. Today Slovenia has more than 40,000 wineries making 1 million hl (26.4 […]

Moldova has a well established wine industry. It has a vineyard area of 147,000 hectares (360,000 acres), of which 102,500 ha (253,000 acres) are used for commercial production. Most of the country’s wine production is for export. Many families have their own recipes and strands of grapes that have been passed down through the generations.

Russian wine refers to wine made in the Russian Federation and to some extent wines made in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics though this later referencing is an inaccurate representation of wines from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine. The phrase Russian wine more properly refers to wine made in the southern part of […]

The Israeli wine industry has wineries numbering in the hundreds and ranging in size from small boutique enterprises making a few thousand bottles per year to the largest producing over ten million bottles per year.

//Wine in Ancient Israel
Wine has been produced in the Land of Israel since Biblical times. The ancient land of Israel […]

Eden Valley (34°38′S, 139°05′E) is a small South Australian town in the Barossa Ranges. It was named by the surveyors of the area after they found the word “Eden” carved into a tree.  Eden Valley has an elevation of 460 metres and an average annual rainfall of 716.2mm.
Eden Valley gives its name to a wine […]