Rivest: China is the world's sixth or seventh largest wine producer
Veronique Rivet · #12 Véronique Rivest: Wine Lessons · Jul 24, 2016 · at 13:44
Master sommelier Véronique Rivest notes the expanding geographic scope of modern winemaking and the vast theory required for sommelier certification.
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“China is the sixth or seventh, ah, world's largest producer of wine today.”
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