I'm a wine snob.... declined a case of wine!

[Zinner]

I, too, am assuming IK is excepting the Languedoc and Tuscan wines that seem more in tune with New World trends. Point well taken.

But my sources also include in Old World the Mediterranean areas as part of ancient wine history. And they include the eastern European areas. Makes sense to me. In 2004, the EU expanded to include the wine-producing nations of Hungary, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. (Not everybody was happy about this because they lost a bunch of subsidies.)

It seems likely to me that the boundaries between Old World and New will become more and more blurred as foreign investment and traveling wine consultants become more common. Changes all over the place.