New World wine

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New World wines are those wines produced outside the traditional wine-growing areas of Europe and North Africa. It refers particularly to wines from the Americas, South Africa, and Australasia.

New World wines are described by grape variety rather than vineyard, stereotypically riper, darker in color, fuller-bodied, smoother, fruitier and more alcoholic than traditional European products, which are more concerned with terroir and tradition. The term "New World wine" has come to describe a wine with some or all of these characteristics produced in any wine region.

The historic Paris Wine Tasting of 1976 revolutionized the world of wine. The Paris event, a blind tasting by leading French experts, demonstrated that New World wines could beat some of the very best that France produces. This led to a rapid expansion of efforts to produce world class South African wines, Australian wines, New Zealand wines, and North and South America wines.

Subsequent blind wine tastings have confirmed that Canada, Chile, Argentina, and other New world countries are able to produce some of the very best wines in the world.

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• Argentine wine
• Chilean wine
• New York Wine Tasting of 1973
• San Diego Wine Tasting of 1975
• Paris Wine Tasting of 1976
• San Francisco Wine Tasting of 1978
• Wine Olympics
• Ottawa Wine Tasting of 1981
• French Culinary Institute Wine Tasting of 1986
• Wine Spectator Wine Tasting of 1986
• Grand European Jury Wine Tasting of 1997
• Berlin Wine Tasting of 2004
• Ottawa Wine Tasting of 2005
• St. Catharines Wine Tasting of 2005
• The Wine Rematch of the Century