Comments on: A New York view of the wine world

By: New York & the wine world « Wine Wine Wine

New York & the wine world « Wine Wine Wine — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:12:22 +0000

[...] Dr Vino for pulling these stats together. That Burgundy (70,470) acres is about five Manhattans but [...]

By: Mark Cochard

Mark Cochard — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:42:26 +0000

Pennsylvania
15,000 total planted grape acreage of which 1500 are wine grapes

By: Jim Oremland

Jim Oremland — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:56:09 +0000

Just want to say that this is one of the most interesting discussions I’ve seen on the subject of wine in a long, long time.

By: Dr. Vino

Dr. Vino — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:01:15 +0000

This in from a Spanish enthusiast: Rioja: 63,593 hectares of planted vineyards (10.85 Manhattans) Ribera del Duero: 20,500 hectares of planted vineyards (3.50 Manhattans) Priorat: 1,767 hectares of planted vineyards (0.30 Manhattans) (One ha. = 2.47 acres)

By: Philip Woodrow (Hahn Family Wines)

Philip Woodrow (Hahn Family Wines) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:26:16 +0000

And of course the Santa Lucia Highlands appellation, with just over 5,500 acres under cultivation. That makes 6.5 Central Parks (and a whole lot prettier).

By: john pepe

john pepe — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:51:46 +0000

Let us not forget the beautiful and diverse Sonoma County. At about 60,300 acres of grapes planted it is just over four Manhattans. Please come visit some time!

By: Thomas Pellechia

Thomas Pellechia — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:21:02 +0000

Plus, Brooklyn is where the first early grapes had been planted by the Dutch.

By: Thomas Pellechia

Thomas Pellechia — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:20:25 +0000

All you provincial Manhattanites be gone: Brooklyn is almost twice the size of Manhattan, about the size of Maipo, and just short of the size of Napa!

By: Dr. Vino

Dr. Vino — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:58:18 +0000

Sorry, again, folks but for the Napa figure as for the Bordeaux, I had dropped in the figure for hectares instead of acres. But all corrected now! We’re crowdsourcing this! Who said you can’t trust what you read on the internets!

John – I added Maipo, which the OCW says is 30,000 acres.

What about the Mosel?

Btw, someone referred to this post as NYC…AOC — brilliant! Now if only we had an art department to lay all this out graphically…

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:37:46 +0000

I was also going to point out that the Napa Valley figure is way too low – with more than 45,000 acres currently planted out of an AVA of 225,300 acres approved for planting. And Mendoza is now up to nearly 400,000 acres planted.

By: John

John — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:53:39 +0000

What about chilean Maipo Valley?

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:22:58 +0000

Great geeky post!

According to the Vineyard Handbook http://www.wineschool.com/buystuff.htm
which is great for this sort of thing:

Le Montrachet has 17.75 acres – a little smaller than Battery Park (20 acres)

Barolo has 3,600 acres – approx 4.5 Central Parks (843 acres)

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:37:22 +0000

Napa has 45,230 planted acres according to CASS (http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/California/index.asp)

maybe the Oxford companion number was hectares not acres?

By: Juan P.

Juan P. — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:56:58 +0000

Hi all

I once calculated that if you bottled a full Spanish still wine vintage (I think I used 2006) in typical 0.75 cl wine bottles and put one in top of the other… you would go round the world 17 times and to the moon… and back!!

Juan

By: greg

greg — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:46:44 +0000

Yes more better!