Recently, I’ve discovered a great new way to waste time on the Internet. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has a Statistics site that allows users to access all sorts of great information on food production, from crops and livestock to food prices and supply. For fun, I crunched some numbers to look at recent wine production in some important wine-producing countries. Google Spreadsheets helped with the chart.
I’ve looked at production data before and I’m always a bit shocked that Australia ranks so low. Aussie wines are definitely over-represented on shelves in BC wine stores, relative to that country’s production. Chile, too, tends to get much more shelf space than higher-producing nations South Africa and Germany.
I find this interesting. You may not.
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joe corkscrew
ruby bricks
good finding. us, wine geeks, will love it.