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Default Is Airen the most widely planted wine grape?

http://www.wineloverspage.com/winead...wa070103.phtml
Grenache probably reaches its pinnacle in Spain's Priorat and France's
Chateauneuf-du-Pape, where it's the primary grape in sought-after,
ageworthy wines. But much of it disappears into anonymous jugs of wine
rarely sold with varietal labels. (The same is true, by the way, but
even more so, of the white grape Airén, the No. 1 most widely planted
variety, which is grown almost exclusively in Spain and is almost
never seen in a varietal wine.)

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Leo Bueno wrote:
> http://www.wineloverspage.com/winead...wa070103.phtml
> Grenache probably reaches its pinnacle in Spain's Priorat and France's
> Chateauneuf-du-Pape, where it's the primary grape in sought-after,
> ageworthy wines. But much of it disappears into anonymous jugs of wine
> rarely sold with varietal labels. (The same is true, by the way, but
> even more so, of the white grape Airén, the No. 1 most widely planted
> variety, which is grown almost exclusively in Spain and is almost
> never seen in a varietal wine.)


Most planted worldwide? Don't know about that. In the USA it was
Zinfandel to produce White Zinfandel with. Then Chardonnay passed
Zinfandel up. I don't know whats the most grown in the USA today.
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Not any more it ain't
http://www.delongwine.com/news/2005/...rom-la-mancha/

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Kudos to this article for appropriate citation of sources.

I haven't read "The Vineyard handbook" (I will now!), nor know anything
about the author, Fegan, but at least they cite the source, and show the
data.

BTW - interesting site - haven;t seen it before.

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> http://www.delongwine.com/news/2005/...rom-la-mancha/
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