Saturday, August 26, 2006

Milena Velba Galeries

Record exports, the first Italian wine in the U.S.

beat the Australians and French.
Back to the top: with a little more than one million hectoliters exported in the first six months of 2006, Italy becomes the largest supplier of wine in the United States, catching up on rival Australia. The data are of Italian wine and food institute, with exports to the U.S. increased by 9.1% in quantity and 7.5% in value compared to 2005, the year of Australia's great pass. This success is not entirely unexpected for the truth. For various reasons. The Americans are after all a nation of new wine drinkers, and at first their tastes have switched to wine easy and immediate, immediately to the wines produced with international grapes universally popular, such as merlot, cabernet, for red and Chardonnay for whites, coming mostly from countries of the new world. Wine intense, muscular, pretty alcoholic and almost always with a major emphasis of woody flavor date from refining of the wine in barrels or more summarily with wood chips. Continued on

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