Country Guide
Moldova: Europe's Best-Kept Wine Secret
While everyone was watching France and Italy, a small country between Romania and Ukraine quietly built one of the most compelling wine stories on the continent.
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The Honest Guides
Stories about what’s in your glass, and the people and places behind it.
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Country Guide
Moldova: Europe's Best-Kept Wine Secret
While everyone was watching France and Italy, a small country between Romania and Ukraine quietly built one of the most compelling wine stories on the continent.
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Country Guide
Greece: The Wine Country That's Been Hiding in Plain Sight
You've had the food. You've probably had the holidays. The wines are equally good, and you almost certainly haven't tried the interesting ones yet.
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Grape Guide
Riesling: The World's Most Misunderstood Grape
Somewhere between the sticky supermarket versions and the expensive collector bottles, there's a Riesling that will make you wonder why you ever wrote it off.
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Style Guide
Find a wine that feels like you
Start with the flavours you enjoy. Leave room for a surprise.
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About Our Wines
Why Small-Production Winemakers Are Worth the Detour
It's not about artisan romance or boutique pricing. It's about what happens to a wine when one person is paying attention to every single vine.
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Style Guide
Orange Wine: The Colour Between White and Red
It's made from white grapes, it's fermented like a red wine, and the flavour is unlike anything else. Here's what to expect from your first glass.
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Style Guide
Pet Nat: The Wine That Never Quite Finished Fermenting
Cloudy, lively, slightly wild, and once you understand what's actually in the bottle, the most natural thing in the world.
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Region Guide
Sicily: The Island That Drinks Better Than the Mainland
Volcanic soil, indigenous grapes, and a generation of winemakers who stopped making bulk wine and started making something worth talking about.
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Region Guide
Alsace: France's Most Aromatic, and Most Misread, Wine Region
It sits on the French side of the Rhine, it makes wines with German grape names, and it produces some of the most complex white wines in the world. Very little about Alsace is simple.
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Grape Guide
Furmint and the New Eastern Europe: Hungary, Slovenia and the Wines That Surprised Us
Tokaj made Furmint famous as a sweet wine. Dry Furmint is making it famous all over again, and it's brought a whole continent's worth of undiscovered bottles along for the ride.
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