On the other hand, juice and bulk grape growers who aim to maximize yield at the appropriate maturity level (brix and acidity) often cope with inadequate vine vigor – and tend to view higher nitrogen inputs as a way of increasing vine size and yield.
By the mid-90s, chardonnay had become the second most widely planted white grape in the world (even today, only the low-quality Spanish bulk wine grape, airén, beats it) as growers in every wine-producing country ripped out local varieties to make room for it.
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While they may own some vineyards, they purchase the bulk of the grapes they need from dozens of the Champagne region's 19,000 growers.
Many wine producers sold their grapes in bulk to wine cooperatives and the government wine agency.
The bulk of Mr. Thompson's grapes, about 100 tons a year, have been sold since 2005 to Bonterra Vineyards, a winery in Mendocino, Calif., that relies on Mr. Thompson to produce about half its sauvignon blanc.
Alcohol is forbidden, but the authorities pretend that the yuppies who descend on a rural market are wholesalers buying grapes in bulk, not the illicit winemakers they really are.
Then there's China, where scientists recently unearthed shards of wine containers dating from 9000 B.C. Until recently, though, much of the wine sold in China came from producers that bought grapes in bulk from local farmers meaning that quality wasn't exactly a priority.
In the Yugoslav days 80% of Macedonia's grapes were exported in bulk and ended up bottled elsewhere in Yugoslavia, or abroad.
Separate stacks of grapes when buying in bulk to promote air circulation.
Sicily was once known for bulk wines and uninteresting, mass-produced grape varieties, but no longer.
