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Provenance 500 Drinks Wine

Beverage Terroir Canon

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Agiorgitiko — The Blood of Hercules at Nemea

Agiorgitiko (Saint George's grape, named after the Byzantine church of Agios Georgios in Nemea) is G…

Agiorgitiko has been cult

Albariño — Galicia's Atlantic White

Albariño is Spain's most celebrated white wine variety, the defining grape of Rías Baixas DO in Gali…

Albariño's origins are un

Amarone della Valpolicella — The King of Italian Reds

Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG is one of Italy's most powerful, distinctive, and age-worthy red win…

Recioto della Valpolicell

Assyrtiko — Santorini's Volcanic Marvel

Assyrtiko is the jewel of Greek white wine and one of the world's most distinctive varieties — a gra…

Assyrtiko has been cultiv

Banyuls and Maury — Roussillon's Fortified Red Masterpieces

Banyuls AOC and Maury AOC are France's finest fortified red wines — Vins Doux Naturels (VDN) produce…

Fortified wine production

Barbera d'Asti and d'Alba — Piedmont's Everyday Excellence

Barbera is Piedmont's most widely planted red grape, producing wines of striking acidity and deep ru…

Barbera has been document

Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley Profile)

Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is the benchmark against which all New World Cabernet is measured — a…

Cabernet Sauvignon (a nat

Carménère — Chile's Adopted Identity Grape

Carménère is one of wine's greatest identity stories: a Bordeaux variety believed extinct after phyl…

Carménère originated in t

Cava — Spain's Method Traditionnelle Sparkler

Cava is Spain's most important sparkling wine — produced by the traditional method (secondary fermen…

Sparkling wine production

Champagne — The World's Most Celebrated Sparkling Wine

Champagne is the most prestigious sparkling wine in the world — the result of méthode champenoise (s…

Champagne's story begins

Chardonnay — The World's Most Versatile White Grape

Chardonnay is the world's most planted and commercially significant white grape variety, capable of …

Chardonnay originated in

Chenin Blanc — The Loire's Chameleon and South Africa's Heritage Grape

Chenin Blanc is one of the world's most versatile white grape varieties — the only variety capable o…

Chenin Blanc is indigenou

Crémant d'Alsace — France's Quality Alternative to Champagne

Crémant d'Alsace AOC is France's most significant non-Champagne sparkling wine appellation and, by v…

Alsace sparkling wine pro

Crémant de Bourgogne — Burgundy's Sparkling Secret

Crémant de Bourgogne AOC is one of France's finest and most underappreciated sparkling wines — a mét…

Sparkling wine has been p

English Sparkling Wine — Britain's Wine Renaissance

English sparkling wine has emerged as one of the wine world's most exciting new categories — méthode…

Vines have been grown in

Franciacorta — Italy's Answer to Champagne

Franciacorta DOCG is Italy's most prestigious méthode classico (méthode traditionnelle) sparkling wi…

Franciacorta's modern win

Furmint — Hungary's Tokaj Wine Heritage

Furmint is Hungary's most important wine grape and the foundation of Tokaj, one of the world's oldes…

Furmint's origins are unc

Gamay (Beaujolais — Cru vs Nouveau)

Beaujolais is one of the wine world's greatest underdog stories — a region that suffered from three …

Gamay was banned from Bur

Gewürztraminer — The Most Aromatic White in the World

Gewürztraminer is arguably the world's most intensely aromatic white wine variety — its characterist…

Gewürztraminer's origins

Godello — Galicia's Hidden Treasure White

Godello is one of Spain's most exciting white grape rediscoveries — an indigenous Galician variety t…

Godello is indigenous to

Grenache/Garnacha (Southern Rhône and Priorat)

Grenache (in France) and Garnacha (in Spain) is the world's most widely planted red variety by acrea…

Grenache/Garnacha's origi

Grüner Veltliner — Austria's Indigenous White Powerhouse

Grüner Veltliner is Austria's most important and widely planted grape variety, producing wines of re…

Grüner Veltliner is indig

Icewine — Canada's Liquid Treasure

Icewine (Eiswein in German) is one of the world's most concentrated and labour-intensive sweet wines…

Eiswein was first produce

Lambrusco — Emilia-Romagna's Vivacious Fizz

Lambrusco is one of Italy's most misunderstood wine categories — reduced in popular memory to the sw…

Lambrusco vines are indig

Madeira — The Immortal Wine of the Atlantic

Madeira is the most age-worthy wine in the world — a fortified wine produced on the Portuguese Atlan…

Madeira wine developed fr

Malbec (Mendoza)

Mendoza Malbec is the success story of modern winemaking — a grape that was a minor blending compone…

Malbec (also called Côt i

Marsala — Sicily's Fortified Legacy

Marsala DOC is Sicily's historic fortified wine — produced in and around the coastal city of Marsala…

Marsala's creation is att

Merlot (Right Bank Bordeaux)

Merlot achieved global dominance through the Right Bank of Bordeaux — Saint-Émilion, Pomerol, and Fr…

Merlot has been cultivate

Moscato d'Asti — Piedmont's Delicate Sweet Sparkler

Moscato d'Asti DOCG is one of Italy's most charming and misunderstood wines — a delicate, low-alcoho…

Muscat Blanc à Petits Gra

Muscat Beaumes-de-Venise — The Rhône's Golden Sweet Wine

Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise AOC is the Rhône Valley's most celebrated Vin Doux Naturel — a naturally…

Muscat cultivation in the

Nebbiolo (Barolo and Barbaresco)

Nebbiolo produces Barolo and Barbaresco — the twin peaks of Italian fine wine — from the Langhe hill…

Nebbiolo has been cultiva

Nero d'Avola — Sicily's Indigenous Powerhouse

Nero d'Avola (literally 'Black of Avola,' named after the town of Avola in Sicily's southeastern Val…

Nero d'Avola has been cul

Passito di Pantelleria — Sicily's Zibibbo Sweet Wine

Passito di Pantelleria DOC is one of Italy's most celebrated and geographically dramatic sweet wines…

Zibibbo cultivation on Pa

Pétillant Naturel (Pét-Nat) — The Ancient Art of Natural Sparkling

Pétillant Naturel (Pét-Nat) is the world's oldest sparkling wine method — méthode ancestrale, in whi…

Méthode ancestrale predat

Pinotage — South Africa's Singular Red

Pinotage is a uniquely South African grape variety, a cross between Pinot Noir and Cinsault (histori…

Abraham Izak Perold creat

Pinot Grigio and Pinot Gris — Same Grape, Two Worlds

Pinot Grigio and Pinot Gris are the same grape variety — a grey-pink-skinned mutation of Pinot Noir …

Pinot Gris is a spontaneo

Pinot Noir (Burgundy vs Oregon vs Central Otago)

Pinot Noir is the world's most capricious and most revelatory red grape — thin-skinned, susceptible …

Pinot Noir is one of the

Port Wine — The Douro's Fortified Masterpiece

Port is the world's most celebrated fortified wine — produced in the Douro Valley, Portugal's steepl…

Port wine's development a

Primitivo — Puglia's Ancient Vine and Zinfandel Twin

Primitivo is one of Italy's most genetically fascinating red varieties: DNA analysis published in 20…

Primitivo has been cultiv

Prosecco — Italy's Celebratory Sparkling

Prosecco is Italy's most commercially successful sparkling wine and the world's most produced sparkl…

Prosecco's name derives f

Recioto della Valpolicella — Veneto's Sweet Red Original

Recioto della Valpolicella DOCG is the ancestor of Amarone — the ancient sweet red wine of the Valpo…

Recioto's name derives fr

Riesling — The Noble Grape of Germany and Alsace

Riesling is widely considered by wine professionals to be the world's greatest white grape variety —…

Riesling's origins are in

Rosé Wine — From Provence to Global Phenomenon

Rosé wine has undergone the most dramatic quality and commercial transformation of any wine category…

Rosé wine is arguably the

Sangiovese (Chianti Classico and Brunello)

Sangiovese is the soul of Tuscany — the red grape of Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino, Vino …

Sangiovese is native to c

Saperavi — Georgia's Ancient Qvevri Red

Saperavi is Georgia's most celebrated red grape variety and one of the world's oldest cultivated vin…

Georgia's South Caucasus

Sauternes — Liquid Gold of Bordeaux

Sauternes is one of the world's most revered dessert wines — a naturally sweet, botrytis-affected wi…

Sauternes' botrytis winem

Sauvignon Blanc — From Loire to Marlborough

Sauvignon Blanc is one of the world's most immediately recognisable white varieties, its defining ar…

Sauvignon Blanc originate

Sherry — Andalusia's Oxidative Marvel

Sherry is one of the wine world's most misunderstood and underappreciated categories — a complex, di…

Sherry production dates t

Syrah/Shiraz (Northern Rhône vs Barossa)

Syrah (in France and most of Europe) and Shiraz (Australia and New World) are the same grape with tw…

Syrah's genetic origin wa

Tannat — Uruguay's National Grape and Longevity Wine

Tannat is one of the world's most tannic red grape varieties, originating in the Basque Country of s…

Tannat is indigenous to t

Tempranillo (Rioja)

Tempranillo in Rioja is Spain's most important red wine and the variety through which Spanish fine w…

Tempranillo has been cult

Torrontés — Argentina's Aromatic Indigenous White

Torrontés is Argentina's most distinctive and widely planted white grape variety, producing wines of…

Torrontés arrived in Arge

Touriga Nacional — The Soul of Port and Douro

Touriga Nacional is Portugal's most celebrated red grape variety and, by many accounts, one of the w…

Touriga Nacional's exact

Txakoli — The Basque Country's Electric White

Txakoli (Txakolina in Basque, Chacolí in Spanish) is the Basque Country's indigenous sparkling-ish w…

Txakoli has been produced

Verdejo — Rueda's Native Treasure

Verdejo is Spain's most exciting indigenous white variety — the backbone of the Rueda DO in Castile …

Verdejo is believed to ha

Vermentino — Mediterranean Italy's Fragrant White

Vermentino is the quintessential white wine of the Italian Mediterranean coastline — the variety tha…

Vermentino's origins are

Vinho Verde — Portugal's Fresh Green Wine

Vinho Verde ('green wine,' referring to the wine's youth and freshness rather than its colour) is Po…

The Vinho Verde DOC was f

Vin Santo — Tuscany's Holy Wine

Vin Santo ('holy wine') is Tuscany's most traditional and historically significant sweet wine — a pa…

Vin Santo's origins are d

Viognier — The Perfumed Prince of Condrieu

Viognier is one of the world's great aromatic white varieties — full-bodied, low in acidity, explosi…

Viognier's origins are di

Zinfandel (Sonoma Old Vine)

Old Vine Zinfandel from Sonoma's Dry Creek Valley and Alexander Valley is California's most original…

Zinfandel was brought to