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Great Sustainable Wine: J. WILKES Pinot Blanc

You’ve seen the scene in hundreds of movies and TV shows: guy behind the wheel of a powerboat, speeding through the deep blue sea to the left, right, behind and

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Great Sustainable Wine: BAKER & BRAIN Gruner Veltliner

Let’s kick off our series on great sustainable wines with a wine from a region that’s a sort of epicenter in California for sustainability, experimentalism and adventurousness. If I had

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Great Wine: Schloss Lieser Niederberg Helden Riesling Spatlese

Nothing lights up a Christmas season like a German Riesling. Other than the fact that Nuremberg, Berlin, Cologne and Dresden are some of the best places on earth to celebrate

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Great Wine: Tangent Albarino

Refreshingly familiar yet eclectically left-of-center, drinking well-made Albariño wine is like listening to seriously catchy alt-pop tunes from CHVRCHES, Tegan and Sara, and HAIM. Tangent, a label of Niven Family

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Great Wine: Laberinto Sauvignon Blanc

Who knew Chile could make such compelling Sauvignon Blanc? I certainly didn’t until now. The winemaker-producer is Rafael Tirado, Chilean native and one of the most sought-after consultants in the

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Great Wine: Puelles Blanco Rioja

A very distinctive and fun white wine, with a ton of Spanish character, that’s truly a bargain. From maybe the greatest region in the world for highest-quality-to-low-price wines—Rioja—all that’s required

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Great Wine: Bruno Giacosa Roero Arneis

To be honest, I knew nothing about Arneis, a white wine grape of northern Italy, until I drank this wine. What drew me to this bottle was the name BRUNO

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Great White Wines from France’s Loire Valley: Hidden Gems

The Loire rocks. The white wines they make in this part of France are unlike anywhere else in the world. Once you get used to the names, and they’re not

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GREAT WINES OF ISRAEL: FLAM | JUDEAN HILLS

Where in the world does a winery have to deal with a war being fought across the border from their vineyards? If not for the miracle of a cease-fire declared

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Great Wine: Domaine Huet Vouvray, Le Haut-Lieu Sec

Pure and pristine as the snowy white Edelweiss flower of the European Alps, this Chenin Blanc wine from DOMAINE HUET is something that blooms and grows with every sip. The

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GREAT WINES OF ISRAEL: RECANATI | HEFER VALLEY

Israel can lay claim, as evidence suggests, to be the first major winemaking region in history. The oldest wine cellar on record dates back to 1700 BC, discovered in the

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