Santa Cruz Mountain AVA The Santa Cruz Mountains comprise some of the most important places in California wine history. While Napa and Sonoma are more famous today, this rugged, alpine region, with vineyards planted above...
LIGURIA Though arguably most associated with France, the Riviera - as concept, aspiration, and actuality - originates in Liguria, in northwestern Italy. The word itself is Italian for “coastline,” and was first applied to the...
Greek Rosé The Greeks have been making wine for a really long time. They have also been making rosé longer than anyone else. While there is evidence of winemaking in Greece going back as far...
Sicily Sicily is one of the biggest wine success stories of the past twenty years and small wonder. The largest island in the Mediterranean, it boasts approximately 135,000 hectares of vineyards – more than in...
Côtes du Rhône Rosé The Côtes du Rhône region has a winemaking history that dates back to before Roman times. Its wines, particularly those from the right bank, were favored by monarchs and the papal...
Viva Mexico Besides being tendentious and all kinds of historically problematic, the wine world’s anachronistic tic of bifurcating itself into “Old” and “New” makes increasingly little sense in just plain descriptive terms. Viticulture in the...
