LandFranceThe reference market for collectible wine: Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne and the Rhône account for most of…LandItalyThe world's largest wine producer by volume in most years, with a small, fast-growing collectible tier in…LandUnited StatesThe largest wine market in the world by value and the home of Napa Valley, the only New World region with a…LandSpainThe largest vineyard area in the world and a collectible tier that trades far below its French and Italian…LandGermanyRiesling country; the Mosel's top sweet wines are among the most expensive white wines sold at auction.LandSwitzerlandA small, expensive wine country that drinks nearly all it makes: Chasselas, Pinot Noir and the Valais’s own…LandUnited KingdomA wine country made by climate change: sparkling wine from the chalk of southern England, and vineyard land…LandPortugalPort, the Douro’s terraces and a country of grapes grown nowhere else, at prices well below France and Italy.LandArgentinaThe fifth-largest wine producer in the world, Malbec its calling card, with cheap land and an economy that…LandNew ZealandA wine industry built since the 1970s on one grape in one place, Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, and the only…LandSouth AfricaThree and a half centuries of Cape wine: Stellenbosch, Swartland and the Hemel-en-Aarde, a weak rand that…LandAustraliaThe world’s fifth-largest exporter, hit hard when China shut its doors in 2020 and now recovering: old-vine…