White Wines - The Rest of the World
Italy
Italy is the largest wine producing country in the world amounting to 33%
of European Production and 25% of world production.
Pinot Grigio
2003, La Tenuta Beltrame
�19,50 per bottle
Australia
The first Australian vineyard was planted at farm Cove in New South Wales
in 1788m with vines not from France but from Rio de Janeiro and the Cape
of Good Hope.
Rolleston Vale
Semillon Chardonnay 2002
�14,50 per bottle
Geoff Merril Chardonnay 2000, Gouburn Valley
�21,00 per bottle
Glaetzer Busvine,Semillon 1998, Barossa Valley
�27,00 per bottle
Howard Park Chardonnay 1997, Denmark
�33,00 per bottle
New Zealand
In what is the most exciting new wine region in the world today, Sauvignon
Blanc competes on equal terms with the very best that Sancerre and Pouilly
Fume have to offer.
West Brook ,
Sauvignon Blanc 2003, Marlborough
�25,00 per bottle
Spain
Calatayud,in the region of Aragon in Northern Spain, produce some outstanding
wine, the Macabeo has ripe fruit flavours with crisp aplley acidity, one
to try.
Finca Carbonell
Viura Chardonnay 2002
�14,00 per bottle
United States
of America
Napa County and most particularly the Napa Valley within it is the heart
and soul of the Californian wine industry. The first vines were planted
in 1838 and the rest is just History.
Cline Marsanne
1996, Carneros
�29,50 per bottle
South Africa
South Africa wine production can be directly traced back to the one man,
Jan Van Riebeek, Commander of the first Dutch settlement who planted his
wine within a 160 kilometre sweep of Cape Town in 1655.
Chacma’s
Bark, Chardonnay 2003, Western Cape
�16,50 per bottle