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According to written reports from the third century BC, there was already a class of wine merchants in ancient Greece. The job title "oinogeustes" (wine taster) existed for them because the ability to taste wine was obviously a prerequisite. In the Middle Ages, the Greek port of Monemvasia on the Peloponnese peninsula was an important transhipment centre for sweet wines from all over the Mediterranean.

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The so-called two vineyard belts contain 95% of the world's most important vineyards for the cultivation of quality wine. They lie from 40 to 50 degrees north latitude and from 30 to 40 degrees south latitude.

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In the past, you needed a wealth of encyclopaedias and specialist literature to keep up to date in your vinophile professional life. Today, Wine lexicon from wein.plus is one of my best helpers and can rightly be called the "bible of wine knowledge".

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The world's largest Lexicon of wine terms.

26,803 Keywords · 47,076 Synonyms · 254,623 Cross-references
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