Welcome to Wine Reviews

This is where the cork comes out of the bottle. You could call it the tasting engine room of the site.

There are eleven different countries in wine reviews.

In France alone, as befits the country which still produces over 50% of the World's finest wine, there are 7 major wine regions reviewed, namely:

Over time, this will build into a considerable resource, with hundreds of villages and producers being profiled.

To access the wine region descriptions, producer profiles and tasting notes, click on the wine region of your interest and follow your nose. Some regions will be classified by the place a wine is grown in, some by the grape variety and in some countries, by a combination of both. This diversity reflects the unique manner in which the wine world continues to grow.

As life is a competitive game, I have split the 11 Countries reviewed on Lovewine into an "Old World" team and a "New World" team. As a man raised in the New World and having spent the last 14 years of my life living in the Old World, I feel personally qualified and sufficiently impartial in my reviewing to pursue this perspective.

Playing on the "Old World" team, we have France , Italy , Spain , Germany and Portugal taking their rightful place at the top table. With long cultural traditions of wine production and a renewed sense of their place as source of many great wines, many of these countries have experienced wine making renaissances over the past ten years. As a result of adopting the technology readily utilised in the New World regions to enhance the quality levels of their great classic wines, countries like Italy and Spain in particular can rightly claim to be the "in form players" for the Old World team.

Playing on the New World team, we have Australia , North America , New Zealand , Chile , South Africa and Argentina. All are seeking to show you just how good they are at producing increasingly sophisticated and elegant wines that show their ability to exploit Old World grape varieties in new regions, without the historical constraints of the Old World regulatory systems. The pace of change and improvement is very rapid in the New World countries, as new areas of wine production open on a regular basis. Dramatic developments are occurring in new wine making regions of Chile, Australia and New Zealand to name but a few.

Over time, I believe Wine Reviews will build into an exciting and highly palatable resource for you to delve into again and again.

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