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Wineries on Snooth

Wineries are where it all begins for us at Snooth. They take the raw goods, grapes, and convert it into what we love most, after our wives and mothers, wine. There are wineries in every State in the US, in every Country in Europe and virtually everywhere around the globe.

While wineries are seemingly everywhere there are certain limits to their propagation. Virtually all the world’s wineries are located in the temperate zones that fall between 30 and 50 degrees latitude in both the Northern and southern Hemispheres. There are of course exceptions to this rule of thumb and most wineries that fall outside of these temperate zones are either near large bodies of water or at elevation to take advantage of the moderating affects this geological positioning can offer.

Wineries range from tiny, backyard operations, frequently referred to as “Garagiste” wineries based on the French term for these small wineries literally working out of their “garage”, which is more often than note a small barn, to huge conglomerates. Just to put this range into scale the largest winery conglomerate in the USA sells about 70 millions cases of wine per year, or about 1 out every 5 cases sold. Out of the more than 6,000 winery labels sold in the USA fewer than 2 dozen sell more than 2 million cases a year. The smallest 4,000 or so of these wineries sell about 20 million cases a year combined, or about 5,000 cases per winery.

Wineries may have their own vineyards adjacent to the vinification facility. These are usually called Estates and, depending on the applicable labeling laws, are labeled as Estate Bottle wines. Wineries can also buy fruit from other vineyards and the naming of the wine as coming from “XYZ vineyard” show the growing importance vineyards and wine growing regions are having. Wineries can even buy finished wine from each other, in which case the label with generally say “cellared and bottled by” on the label.

Wineries have a history almost as old as recorded history. The oldest labeled bottles of wine in existence date only from the middle of the 17th century though bottles dating back almost 2 millennia have been discovered in Germany and wine residue dating back millennia further have been discovered in Georgia and China!