This paper examines empirically two distinguishing aspects of the world's wine regions: their degree of specialization … regions, as measured by a varietal-based regional similarity index. Twelve of the most important wine-producing countries …

The second decade of rapid globalization of the wine industry is assessed using a newly-published statistical … compendium of global wine markets. A dozen observations are made from those data offer insights into key new opportunities and … segments of the worlds wine markets as of 2009 also is examined. That view of market segments is important for developing a …