Italy
Italy – the home of Barolo, Moscato, Chianti, and Amarone – has a rich and diverse wine
heritage dating back more than two thousand years. Famous for its bewildering diversity of
both grape varieties and wine styles, Italy is also significant for the sheer volume of wine it
produces: just over 40 million hL in 2012, from 800,000 ha of vineyards. It is rivaled in this
regard only by France and Spain.