Cooking World

In Europe “the wine conflict” has reached crisis point. It was provoked by Australia, Africa and America - Northern and Southern. Someone strikes terror into all European wine makers. And only Asia and Russia help them.
Globalization has captured European, and global winemaking, and there two reasons that. The first - expansion of Australia, the USA and Chile on traditionally European markets. The second one is a sharp recession of wine consumption in the Europe.
Wine, bread and cheese are «three whales» of the French table.
According to the European Commission’s information, a quarter of a century the Frenchmen and Italians jointly took about five billions liters of wine every year. But since the last year this figure has fallen up to three billions. Wine loses the title of one of three whales of the French meal along with bread and cheese. The Frenchmen have started to drink less, but became more exquisite in preferences. The increased selectivity is only one of two reasons, and, perhaps, not main. And main, in opinion of many French wine merchants is toughening of the laws aimed at restriction of alcoholic drinks consumption, first of by motorists.