Europe

For decades, the global wine trade’s understanding of Portugal began and ended at the Douro Valley: Port wine, a handful of increasingly respected dry Douro reds, and perhaps a vague awareness that something fizzy existed farther north. That …

Long before the Greeks codified the cult of Dionysus, the Thracians were already deep in devotion to their own god of wine — Zagreus, later syncretized with Dionysus himself. Archaeological evidence from the eastern Balkans points to organized …

With 28,000 registered winegrowers, a living orange wine tradition, and three distinct regions spanning Alpine foothills to the Adriatic, Slovenia is the most exciting frontier in European wine. Here is why the trade needs to pay attention.

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