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Fiano and the Myth of the Bee Vine 🇮🇹
How an ancient name, a nineteenth-century fungus, and a lot of repetition turned a wine myth into common knowledge.
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Dolcetto: The Little Sweet One's Bitter Decline 🇮🇹
For a century, Dolcetto kept Piedmont's cellars solvent while Barolo aged. Barbera eventually took that role—and the land with it.
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Six Months, One Grape at a Time
On streaks, obscure bottles, and why it's been worth every Thursday.
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Encruzado: Out of the Field Blend 🇵🇹
How Dão's most distinctive white grape stopped singing backup. A tasting of the 2022 Mira do Ó Druida Reserva.
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Pedro Parra and the Granite of Itata 🇨🇱
How Chile's "Dr. Terroir" reads the rock to find the right grape—and why his old-vine Cinsault makes the case.
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Frappato: Sicily's Most Overlooked Red Wine 🇮🇹
Arianna Occhipinti has spent twenty years making the case. The rest of us are just catching up.
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Meunier, Unmasked 🇫🇷
Unraveling Champagne’s most overlooked voice
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Grüner Veltliner: Out of the Spotlight 🇦🇹
The wine that beat Montrachet in a blind tasting and still can't get a reservation.
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Poulsard: Transparency as Terroir 🇫🇷
A Jura red that trades power for precision.
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Godello and the Making of Modern Valdeorras 🇪🇸
How a near-extinct grape reshaped a region’s identity.
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Far From the Eye, Close to the Glass 🇫🇷
The story of Gaillac’s most intriguingly named white grape.
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The Many Faces of Furmint 🇭🇺
Hungary’s most versatile white grape.
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