differing white and red wine countries.

[culinart]

IS this true or not?

Someone has told me that when making red wine, the grapes need a warm climate to thrive in and with white wine it requires a more colder climate. So when choosing your wine selection (red or white), it would make more sense that the quality of white wines would be greater from a colder climate region than it would be from say a country like chile (which has warmer climates all year round) So in other words , white wine from italy, germany or france would be better than chile, argentina or south africa.
Would u say that is an off statement?

I mean does a countries climate determine whether they will be great white wine producers or great red wine producers?? When u think of red wine, what countries always produce real good quality ones and vice versa for white wines>>???

[Innkeeper]

Hi Culinart, and welcome to the Wine Board. In her book "Great Wine Made Simple", Andrea Immer has an outstanding chapter entitled "A Flavor Map of the World." In thirty six pages, she answers all your questions.

[culinart]

Thanks for that info there Inn!
I will go to my local bookstore and take a look at that book. Any other good books that you could also recommend for newbie wine drinkers? Sorry to get off topic here, but do they have a chat forum here for us novice ppl or any members for that matter?

[Georgie]

Two books that I've been reading and finding useful are "The Wine Bible" by Karen MacNeil, and "Wine for Dummies."

[ShortWiner]

There's no chat on this site, culinart, sorry.