Italian Wines.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4531, 6 December 1884, Page 3

Italian Wines.

So fat as quantity goes,1 Italy lia&in sewral recent years outdone France—m 18/8" and 1879 to the extent of 2,000,000 hecolitres— and the production in Italy m now ; increasing andadmite of far greaterincrease^ » Taking the average of the last five years, France" taken the lead, the mean production . being nearly 34,000,000 hectolitres j then ,■ comes Italy, with over 27,000,000} then Austro-Hungary, • with 24,000,000; Jben Spain with 22,000,000. Germany produces only 2.000,000—s little over twice as much , as Switzerland, and nbt; twice as much;a(i » Greece, In considering the expdrts;>y| must, of course, be carefal to'distinguißfl ; , those countries in which ihe Italian wingm ■"- are drank from those in which they'are made up and re-exported under false titles,; : Two-thirds of the whole Italian .exports oi wine go to France for the latter purpoaM , aboutaneighth cornea to England (of whieli ii Marsala probably forms by far the gre&tet part)as abeverage j and Switzerland, stawt ~ ing next in order, takes one-tenth...<OivtW w&es imported into Switzerland/ thosa-;;O Piedmont and the ValtaUinaprobablyiforn ( the majority. They are used in their natuVa g state by the Swiss themselves, and. by_tn: thousands of tourists who crowd .ttie.Alß! ■ in the summer and autumn. -Geri^; ; takes about one fifty-eighth, partly ,»r||g f manufacture; and Uruguay, where WM are large numberaof Italian colonists, abfW \ tho same quantity for consumption. Otb<s l« countries take comparatively little. ~. E