Talk:List of wine-producing regions

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Contents 1 Irish Wine? 2 German Regions 3 Disambiguated some links 4 Could someone add China! 5 Gavi 6 American viticultural areas 7 Palestinian Territories

[edit] Irish Wine?

I don't think Ireland should be included as a wine producing region. It doesn't produce wine on any scale that I am aware. (There are a handful of vineyards producing German-style whites, but I've never actually seen the wine for sale here.) As such, I'm removing it. Wine is however produced in Southern Britain on a small commercial scale, (see cf. [1]) and note also that there are minor wine-producing countries that aren't on the list - e.g. Luxembourg. Blorg 20:09, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Actually, isn't Ireland too cool in the summer to produce most, if not all varieties of grapes? Heff01 04:54, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] German Regions

is there any system to the German wine-growing regions? Sometimes only a river is given? --Yak 11:01, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Not to this list. Am gradually fixing them, will fix this later. There are 13 official regions. I hadnt really looked at this page before. Frankly its completely useless. Justinc 21:06, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguated some links

I have disambiguated the links to most of the South Australian and Victorian regions. This led to creating a broken link for Eden Valley (the default target was wrong!), and the link for Macedon Ranges is to the shire, rather than create another broken link. The Grampians link still points to a disambiguation page, as it was not appropriate to redirect it to point to a national park. -- ScottDavis 08:06, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Could someone add China!

China is, according to FAO stats, one of the 10 biggest wine producing nations in the world, which seems reason enough to add the country. China is also lacking from the wine entry, despite having a small but nevertheless 2,000 years old tradition of wine making. 213.89.48.107 19:33, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gavi

Hi, the wine-producing region of Gavi (a small village in the south of Piedmont) has nothing to do with the small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea (to which it is linked in this wikipedia page). One should create a disambiguation page. Riccardo

Appart from Commandaria Cyprus also produces a variety of other wines which also exports.

[edit] American viticultural areas

How does a county or region qualify as an American viticultural area? I am from Lehigh County, Pennsylvania which, despite being pretty small in area, having around 1,000 people per square mile, and not much farmland left, produces a significant share of Pennsylvania's internal wine sales, particularly from Clover Hill Winery and Blue Mountain Vineyards. I believe that it merits serious consideration, if not outright approval as an AVA. I should contact my Congressman Charlie Dent's office about this matter. Heff01 05:06, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Palestinian Territories

Why are the Palestinian Territories listed as a subcategory of Iran? It seems that they ought to be either a subcategory of Israel or listed as their own region.