When I’m not buying wines for wine courses, I find myself buying wines with lower acidity. Ribeiro whites ticked that box, at a recent wine tasting. Ribeiro D.O. is in Spain’s Galicia region, in the north-west of the country, on the Portuguese border, some 30km from the Atlantic. Its tradition of vine-growing dates back at […]
Gruner Veltliner
If you consider that there are somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 varieties of vitis vinifera, the vine species used to make wine, it is hardly surprising that many remain obscure. Grüner Veltliner has less than 20,000 hectares of vines planted around the world, in contrast to more popular Chardonnay, which has more than 160,000. […]