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Revision as of 10:37, 15 June 2008
 | This The illustration of the "wine belt" is extremely suspicious, since it excludes several major and notable wine regions in continous cultivation since either the Roman or early Medieval age, such as Alsace, the German and Austrian regions and Luxembourg. The illustration and text miss the fact that beer and wine production have a significant geographic overlap, and that many of the countries claimed as the beer belt ("where beer is historically the most popular alcoholic beverage") have been the world's largest wine importers for centuries. Also, most of the sources given are not reliable sources on viticulture, and miss the fact that wine has been produced in the southern hemisphere since the 16th century. may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: Lacking in substance. Probably not a term in actual use in the wine business, probably coined as an opposite to vodka belt or possibly beer belt for journalistic text. (May 2008) |
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Vodka belt
Beer belt
Wine belt
The Wine Belt is an informal term for the territory covered by countries where wine is historically the most popular alcoholic beverage. The wine belt is located to the south of the beer belt and the vodka belt.[1][2][3][4] The wine belt is aprox between 41° - 44°N[5] or 30° - 50°N.[6] Countries in the wine belt include Spain, Portugal, Italy, Hungary, Moldova, Georgia, Switzerland, Romania and France. Additionally, southwestern Germany and parts of Austria could be considered to lie either within the belt or within an overlap region.[7]