page_title: Wine
section_title: Exporting countries
hierarchical_section_title: Wine / Production / Exporting countries
caption_attribution_description: English: Wine Exports by Country (2014)
context_page_description: Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from fermented grape juice. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol, carbon dioxide, and heat. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts produce different styles of wine. These variations result from the complex interactions between the biochemical development of the grape, the reactions involved in fermentation, the grape's growing environment, and the production process. Many countries enact legal appellations intended to define styles and qualities of wine. These typically restrict the geographical origin and permitted varieties of grapes, as well as other aspects of wine production. Wines not made from grapes involve fermentation of additional crops including, rice wine and other fruit wines such as plum, cherry, pomegranate, currant and elderberry.
  Wine has been produced for thousands of years. The earliest evidence of wine is from ancient China, Georgia, Iran, and Sicily. New World wine has some connection to alcoholic beverages made by the indigenous peoples of the Americas, but is mainly connected to later Viking area of Vinland and Spanish traditions in New Spain.
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  The UK was the world's largest importer of wine in 2007.
caption: Wine Exports by Country (2014) from Harvard Atlas of Economic Complexity
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