Ask a traveler what they tasted in the Langhe and the answer is almost always Barolo, sometimes Barbaresco, occasionally Barbera if they spent an afternoon with someone who insisted. Almost nobody mentions Gavi. Fewer still mention Arneis. Fewer than that have heard of Timorasso. Arneis grows just across the Tanaro from the hills that produce…
Alsace runs one of the simplest appellation structures in France. Two classifications cover the still wines: Alsace and Alsace Grand Cru. That’s most of what you need to read a shelf or wine list. The complication shows up further down the label, where a wine starts telling you how much sugar the grapes had when…
On one of our first trips to Germany we learned the truth about Riesling: Not all Riesling is sweet. This was years ago when we were still learning about wine, and up until then thought (wrongly) that Riesling meant sweet wine. But on that trip we learned that German Rieslings run across the spectrum and…
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