segments of the worlds wine markets as of 2009 also is examined. That view of market segments is important for developing a …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 …

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 … examine the development of national wine market developments before, during and in between the two waves of globalization …

. Barely one-tenth of the world's wine production was exported prior to the 1970s, even counting intra-European trade. The … have broadened. Asia in particular is emerging as a new and rapidly growing wine market - and in China that is stimulating …Until very recently, most grape-based wine was consumed close to where it was produced, and mostly that was in Europe …

centuries wine was very much a European product. While that is still the case today--three-quarters of world wine production …This absorbing book examines the period of massive structural adjustment taking place in the wine industry. For many …, consumption and trade involve Europe and most of the rest involves just a handful of New World countries settled by Europeans …