Wine
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Wine is an alcoholic drink. We usually use the word for the drink made from the juice of grapes, although people sometimes call alcoholic drinks made from the juice of other fruits "wine". In this article we talk only about wine made from grapes.
Wine is made by the fermentation of the sugar in grapes. There are two main types of wine, red wine and white wine. Rosé wine is made by leaving red grapes in skin contact for very short. The colour comes only from the skin, so if you have short skin contact, the wine will not turn red but only "pink"( rose wine). Wine sometimes has bubbles in it; this wine is called sparkling wine. The most popular sparkling wine is champagne.
People have been making wine since about 5000 years ago.
Wine is the popular drink in many countries. The countries that drink the most wine (using 2000 numbers) are:
France, Italy, USA, Germany, Spain, Argentina, the United Kingdom, China, Russia, and Romania
However, if you use the per person (or "per capita") numbers, the list is different:
Luxembourg, France, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, and Slovenia
Wine is made in many countries. The countries that make the most wine (using 2000 numbers) are:
France, Italy, Spain, USA, Argentina, Germany, Australia, South Africa, Portugal, and Chile
External references
edit*{(en)(fr)(de)(it)(es)} 'www.guidale.com' Wine of France, directory of French producers