The Chardonnay vintages of the early 1990s from British Columbia helped generate international attention to the quality of Canadian wines apart from ice wine varietals.

The export driven Australian wine industry was well situated for the Chardonnay boom of the 1980s and 1990s and Australia responded with a unique style of wine that was characterized by big fruit flavors and easy approachability.

) By the late 1990s, efforts to promote " authentic " Chardonnay helped to increase plantings and by 2004 it was the 3rd most widely planted white wine grape behind Chenin blanc and Colombard.

Chardonnay became very fashionable in the 1990s, as the stereotypical drink of young urban women of the Bridget Jones generation.

Riesling was the most planted white grape in Australia until the early 1990s when Chardonnay greatly increased in popularity.

In the 1980s and 1990s, production styles shifted to producing more lighter and crisper styles that were closer to Pinot grigio than to Chardonnay.

The best selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 and became the leading home computer of the late 1980s and early 1990s in much of Western Europe.

The rise of TCP / IP during the 1990s led to a re-implementation of most of these types of support on that protocol, and AppleTalk became unsupported as of the release of Mac OS X v10. 6 in 2009.

EtherTalk in particular gradually became the dominant implementation method for AppleTalk as Ethernet became generally popular in the PC industry throughout the 1990s.

During the 1980s and 1990s, she became one of the first CCM artists to cross over into mainstream pop on the heels of her successful albums Unguarded and Heart in Motion, the latter of which included the No. 1 single " Baby Baby ".

Cell phone cloning became possible with off-the-shelf technology in the 1990s.

As the use of the Internet became more widespread in the mid to late 1990s, traditional BBSes rapidly faded in popularity.

Towards the early 1990s, the BBS industry became so popular that it spawned three monthly magazines, Boardwatch, BBS Magazine, and in Asia and Australia, Chips ' n Bits Magazine which devoted extensive coverage of the software and technology innovations and people behind them, and listings to US and worldwide BBSes.

A number of companies wanted to license the COCONET GUI but Coconut Computing chose not to, and as a result, a competing approach called Remote Imaging Protocol ( RIP ) emerged and was promoted by Telegrafix in the early to mid 1990s but it never became widespread.

After partially recovering from the 1990s crisis, the Bulgarian military became a part of the collective defensive system of NATO.

The drink became popular in most parts of East and Southeast Asia during the 1990s.

Carbamazepine became widely used to treat bipolar disorder in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but was displaced by sodium valproate in the 1990s.

In the early 1990s, Battery Park City became the new home of the Stuyvesant High School.

However, in the 1990s it rapidly became the dominant set of methods of phylogenetics in evolutionary biology, because computers made it possible to process large quantities of data about organisms and their characteristics.

The " minicomics " form, an extremely informal version of self-publishing, arose in the 1980s and became increasingly popular among artists in the 1990s, despite reaching an even more limited audience than the small press.

By the early 1990s, the performance of microprocessor-based computers reached the point that real-time generation of computer music using more general programs and algorithms became possible.

The Red Wings have not used any alternate logos or uniforms since the trend became popular in the 1990s, the sole exceptions were select games of the 1991 – 92 season commemorating the league's 75th Anniversary, and for a commemorative game in 1994 at Chicago Stadium.

Starting in the 1990s, smaller half, quarter, eighth and even sixteenth-sized instruments became more widely available, which meant that children could start at a younger age.

It was only in the 1990s that the price for Chinese-derived erbium oxide became low enough for erbium to be considered for use as a colorant in art glass.

She continued to enjoy steady success during the 1990s and 2000s ; her 2000 album A Day Without Rain sold 15 million copies, and became the top selling new age album of the 2000s in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

With the advent of a Provisional IRA ceasefire and the beginning of what became known as the Peace Process during the 1990s, the official view of the Rising became more positive and in 1996 an 80th anniversary commemoration at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin was attended by the Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael, John Bruton.

The co-operation became stronger during the end of the 1990s.

France became a nuclear power and since the 1990s its military action is most often seen in cooperation with NATO and its European partners.

The local economy is based upon tourism directed to the beaches of the Costa Blanca and particularly the second residence construction boom which started in the 1960s and reinvigorated again by the late 1990s.

Telegames released a number of games in the second half of the 1990s, including a port of Raiden and a platformer called Fat Bobby in 1997, as well as an action sports game called Hyperdrome in 1999.

At that point three launches in combat resulted in three kills, resulting in the AMRAAM being informally named " slammer " in the second half of the 1990s.

A " second wave " arose in the early 1990s, spearheaded by Norwegian bands such as Mayhem, Burzum, Darkthrone, Immortal and Emperor.

Many of these vehicles are second hand ( such as the 1500 decommissioned Dutch buses, which the Netherlands donated to Cuba in the mid 1990s ) and despite the United States trade embargo, American-style yellow school buses ( imported second-hand from Canada ) are increasingly common sights.

Cape Breton Island's second cultural flag, the " Tartan " flag ( early 1990s )

In the early 1990s, the United States was by far Honduras's leading trading partner, with Japan a distant second.

The higher education sector expanded in the second half of the 20th century, with four institutions being given university status in the 1960s ( Dundee, Heriot-Watt, Stirling and Strathclyde ) and five in the 1990s ( Abertay, Glasgow Caledonian, Napier, Paisley and Robert Gordon ).

Events that took place there, by the end of the 1990s and the first years of the 21st century, provoked the second reason for controversy.

A second wave of success came in the late 1980s and early 1990s, led by Kent Hrbek, Bert Blyleven, Frank Viola, and Kirby Puckett, winning the franchise's second and third World Series ( and first in Minnesota ).

In the first year of the 1990s, the Detroit Pistons would win the second of their back-to-back titles, led by Chuck Daly and Isiah Thomas.

There were three successive incarnations of the organization, the " first generation " which consisted of Baader and his associates, the " second generation " RAF, which operated in the mid to late 1970s after several former members of the Socialist Patients ' Collective joined, and the " third generation " RAF, which existed in the 1980s and 1990s.

Many economists have stated that Reagan's policies were an important part of bringing about the second longest peacetime economic expansion in U. S. history, and followed by an even longer 1990s expansion that began under George H. W.

As for employment, a longtime weakness of the Spanish economy, after having completed large improvements over the second half of the 1990s and during the 2000s ( decade ), which put a few regions on the brink of full employment, Spain suffered a severe setback from October 2008, when it saw its unemployment rate surging to 1996 levels.

Plans were made in the late 1990s for a second artery road into the city ( the " Trekvliettracé " or previously called " Rotterdamsebaan ") but have continually been put on hold.

The first was on the right side with the channel number, call signs and city, then the second was the blue bar and the call letters only By the late 1990s, the call signs were minimized to be just barely readable to meet FCC requirements, and the stations were simply known as " UPN ", then channel number or city ( e. g., WPWR-TV in Chicago had been referred to as " UPN Chicago " and WWOR-TV in New York was referred to as " UPN 9 " until The CW merger was announced in late January 2006 ).

In the late 1990s, Warner obtained rights to the Harry Potter novels, and released feature film adaptations of the first in 2001, the second in 2002, the third in June 2004, the fourth in November 2005, and the fifth on July 11, 2007.

It was the second year of the 1990s, and is usually considered the final year of the Cold War that had begun in the late 1940s.

There were reports that the number of residents increased by 60 % during the 1990s to about 25, 000 although a second estimate ( based on the 2000 census based on a different map ) places the residential ( nighttime and weekend ) population in 2000 at 12, 042.

During the second half of the 1990s she starred in several films such as the ensemble romantic film ' Til There Was You ( 1997 ) with Dylan McDermott and Sarah Jessica Parker, The Thin Pink Line ( 1998 ), the animated feature The Iron Giant ( 1999 ), and the critically acclaimed comedy Office Space ( 1999 ).

In the United States, the National Captioning Institute noted that English as a foreign or second language ( ESL ) learners were the largest group buying decoders in the late 1980s and early 1990s before built-in decoders became a standard feature of US television sets.

For much of the 1990s Li was ranked second in the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) hierarchy behind then Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin.

The Three Colors Trilogy ( Blue, White, and Red ), and Pulp Fiction originally ranked second and third on Ebert's 1994 list ; both were included on his " Best Films of the 1990s " list, but their order had reversed.