The Wines of Empire
KPFA - Against the Grain
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Imperial Wine, How the British Empire Made Wine's New World
In the 1920s there are wine importers and sellers, often they're the same thing. You have an importer who has their own shop. So I think there might be a democratization of consumption in the 1920s and 30s that we see with wine. And Algeria was one of the world's largest wine producers in the mid 20th century up until Algerian independence in the 1960s.
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