 The term "Old World wine" does not refer to a homogeneous style with "Old World wine regions" like Austria, France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain each making vastly different styles of wine even within their own borders.Rather, the term is used to describe general differences in viticulture and winemaking philosophies between the Old World regions where tradition and the role of "terroir" lead versus the New World where science and the role of the winemaker are more often emphasized.In recent times, the globalization of wine and advent of flying winemakers have lessened the distinction between the two terms with winemakers in one region being able to produce wines that can display the traits of the other region—i.e.