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Whether Bolgheri or Bordeaux, the world’s greatest expressions of Merlot continue to demonstrate the importance of place. With comparisons to Pétrus and multiple 100-point recognitions, Masseto has expanded the global conversation and shown that wine regions and grape varieties can evolve when someone recognizes extraordinary terroir in unexpected places.
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Malvasia’s story reaches back to Monemvasia, the fortified Greek coastal town whose name the Venetians shortened to Malvasia. By the thirteenth century, the wine had become one of the Mediterranean’s great commercial successes: a sweet, sun-dried wine made from local white grapes rather than from one fixed “Malvasia” variety.
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Memento Mori’s story is not a template—most aspiring Napa producers won’t stumble into a former world-class art compound. But it does illustrate what can still happen when you combine audacity and gratitude with the right partners.
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Maeli is the only winery to produce Moscato Giallo as a sweet sparkling, classic-method brut nature, semi-sparkling made in the ancestral method, dry still wine, and passito—collectively forming a tasting journey known as La Via del Moscato Giallo.
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Francesco Carfagna of Altura Vigneto is a kind of “godfather” of Giglio’s wine industry and helped revive the island’s wine culture after it nearly died in the late 20th century. His journey began in the late 1990s when he restored a vineyard on the Capel Rosso Promontory where the Ansonica grape had flourished for centuries. By 1996, only 10-13 hectares of cultivated land had remained, worked by a handful of dedicated vignerons who Francesco calls “the irreducible [unyielding, diehard] ones.”
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Dry-farming has been a fundamental agricultural practice in dry Mediterranean regions for centuries. Lokka points out that going without irrigation there is easier because ‘they have rain’. However, with climate instability, Europe has had to adapt as well. It’s known for restricting irrigation, yet record-breaking heat means many previously anti-irrigation regions now allow it upon regional consensus.
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Beyond Sardinia’s Vermentino and Pantelleria’s Passito di Pantelleria, there are many little-known island wines to explore. Mother Nature has graced these little slices of paradise with breathtaking panoramas and rare wines that are lively, summery, and highly quaffable.
Beyond Sardinia’s Vermentino and Pantelleria’s Passito di Pantelleria, there are many little-known island wines to explore. Mother Nature has graced these little slices of paradise with breathtaking panoramas and rare wines that are lively, summery, and highly quaffable.
The historic Old Redwood Highway (now Highway 101) takes you
With over 500 wineries producing some of the world’s most
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Lazio winemakers are raising their wines’ prestige to that of the once sought-after wines of ancient Rome by reclaiming their mastery of native grapes and innovative practices. Rediscovering indigenous varieties is happening not only in Lazio but all over Italy. There is much to discover in a country with over 2000 grape varieties. Still, three little-known indigenous grapes are taking center stage in the rapidly improving Roman wine market: Bellone, Nero Buono, and Cesanese.
