diseases and the pest phylloxera from the 1860s, most "New World" countries remained net importers of wine until late in the … nineteenth century. Some of the world's leading wine economists and historians have contributed to and drawn on this database to …

. Barely one-tenth of the world's wine production was exported prior to the 1970s, even counting intra-European trade. The … World" producers. New consumers also have come onto the scene as incomes have grown, eating habits have changed and tastes …