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Montepulciano, Cerasuolo and the hills below the Gran Sasso

https://corkandcurve.com/portugal/alentejo/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Rolling wheat plains, Roman talha wine and Alicante Bouschet's adopted home

https://corkandcurve.com/france/alsace/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Riesling, Gewurztraminer and 51 Grands Crus on the Vosges flank

https://corkandcurve.com/italy/alto-adige/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Alpine whites, native reds, bilingual cellars between the Dolomites and the Adige

https://corkandcurve.com/germany/baden/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Spaetburgunder heartland on volcanic soil, Gutedel in the Markgraeflerland, Riesling on the Ortenau's granite

https://corkandcurve.com/france/beaujolais/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Ten granite crus, one grape, a natural-wine revolution

https://corkandcurve.com/spain/bierzo/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Old-vine Mencía, slate slopes, village wines

https://corkandcurve.com/france/bordeaux/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Left Bank gravels, Right Bank clay, one top-tier appellation

https://corkandcurve.com/slovenia/brda/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Rebula, opoka marl terraces and the Slovenian half of Collio

https://corkandcurve.com/austria/burgenland/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Blaufränkisch reds, lake-driven botrytis, six DACs in one province

https://corkandcurve.com/france/burgundy/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

One thousand climats of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay

https://corkandcurve.com/france/champagne/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

The chalk cellars and Grand Cru villages of the world's benchmark sparkling wine

https://corkandcurve.com/portugal/douro/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Schist terraces, fortified Port and a still-wine renaissance

https://corkandcurve.com/portugal/dao/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Granite, pine and altitude: Touriga Nacional's likely home

https://corkandcurve.com/hungary/eger/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Bull's Blood country: Kekfrankos-led Bikaver and rhyolite-tuff cellars in the Bukk foothills

https://corkandcurve.com/italy/franciacorta/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Traditional-method sparkling DOCG from 1995, born in 1961 at Berlucchi, anchored at Erbusco

https://corkandcurve.com/germany/franken/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Bone-dry Silvaner in the Bocksbeutel, from Wuerzburg's Stein to the Steigerwald's gypsum keuper

https://corkandcurve.com/italy/friuli-venezia-giulia/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Italy's white-wine north-east plus the birthplace of modern orange wine at Oslavia

https://corkandcurve.com/croatia/istria/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Malvazija Istarska, Teran and truffle-forest hill towns on the Adriatic

https://corkandcurve.com/spain/jerez/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Two DOs, three towns, one chalky terroir, flor yeast

https://corkandcurve.com/france/jura/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Vin jaune under a yeast veil, on 80 km of Jurassic marl

https://corkandcurve.com/georgia/kakheti/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Qvevri marani, Saperavi reds and the Alazani Valley

https://corkandcurve.com/france/languedoc/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Carignan, Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre, Picpoul and Mauzac across the garrigue from Narbonne to the Cevennes

https://corkandcurve.com/france/loire/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Sauvignon, Chenin, Cabernet Franc and Melon across one thousand kilometres of river

https://corkandcurve.com/germany/mosel/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Riesling on slate, from feather-light Kabinett to noble Trockenbeerenauslese

https://corkandcurve.com/greece/naoussa/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Xinomavro by law, a single grape and a hillside of named sites

https://corkandcurve.com/greece/nemea/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Greece's Agiorgitiko heartland, seventeen villages in the Peloponnese

https://corkandcurve.com/spain/penedes/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Cava's home, Xarel-lo's homeland, and the splinter that became Corpinnat

https://corkandcurve.com/germany/pfalz/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Riesling on basalt and limestone in the Mittelhaardt, Pinot Noir and Weissburgunder on the Sudliche Weinstrasse

https://corkandcurve.com/italy/piedmont/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Nebbiolo kings, Barbera workhorses, fog over the Langhe hills

https://corkandcurve.com/spain/priorat/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Garnacha, slate and the five pioneers who changed Spanish wine

https://corkandcurve.com/france/provence/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Mourvedre, Grenache, Cinsault, Rolle and Tibouren across the Mediterranean garrigue from the Rhone delta to the Italian border

https://corkandcurve.com/germany/rheingau/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Riesling on quartzite and loess from Hochheim to Lorch, Spätburgunder on red slate at Assmannshausen

https://corkandcurve.com/germany/rheinhessen/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Riesling on Wonnegau limestone, Silvaner on rolling hills and Roter Hang red slate above the Rhine

https://corkandcurve.com/france/rhone/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Syrah, Viognier and Grenache across two hundred kilometres of the Rhone

https://corkandcurve.com/spain/ribera-del-duero/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Tinto Fino on the Castilian plateau, from cooperative roots to cult-wine gravity

https://corkandcurve.com/spain/rioja/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Tempranillo, oak and the Ebro across three sub-zones

https://corkandcurve.com/spain/rias-baixas/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Atlantic Albariño, granite pergolas, five rías

https://corkandcurve.com/greece/santorini/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Ungrafted Assyrtiko, kouloura baskets, volcanic salinity

https://corkandcurve.com/italy/sicily/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Volcano, sea wind, and native varieties that change with every contrada

https://corkandcurve.com/england/sussex/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

English sparkling wine on the South Downs chalk

https://corkandcurve.com/hungary/tokaj/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Aszú gold from volcanic hillsides, 1737 royal decree, 2002 UNESCO inscription

https://corkandcurve.com/italy/tuscany/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Sangiovese hills, Super Tuscan coasts, one indelible terroir

https://corkandcurve.com/italy/umbria/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Sagrantino's hill towns, Orvieto's tufa cellars, one landlocked green heart

https://corkandcurve.com/switzerland/valais/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Terraced Rhone valley vines and grapes grown nowhere else

https://corkandcurve.com/italy/valpolicella/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Corvina, drying lofts and the making of Amarone

https://corkandcurve.com/italy/veneto/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Amarone hills, Prosecco ridges, the full arc of Italian wine

https://corkandcurve.com/portugal/vinho-verde/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Atlantic Alvarinho on Portugal's green granite coast

https://corkandcurve.com/austria/wachau/ 2026-10-03T05:38:57Z

Danube terraces, gneiss soils, the Smaragd standard