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Germany & Austria: Minerality is a good buzz-word to toss around, and you won’t go wrong using it on the dry, aromatic whites from these countries. Riesling, sylvaner, and grüner veltliner are the main players.
Hungary: Tokaj is hot as a pistol, both dry wine made from furmint - a sort of riesling impersonator - and the legendary dessert wine they’ve been making since long before it occurred to anyone in Sauternes, whose quality is measured in buckets of sugar, or puttonyosIf you happen to live west of New York and east of California, you’re not going to trip over a lot of this, but it’s still good to know.
France: Would you believe…Chablis. This is the in-crowd’s version of chardonnay: steely, minerally, non-oaky and affordable.
Also on the bus: sauvignon blanc from South Africa, malbec and torrontés from Argentina, and no doubt a few other wines whose champions will have fired off volleys of outraged emails to me before you even finish this sentence.
Finally, my team of advisors all agree, the hippest wine thing you can do right now is choose screw caps over corks. A few years back, who woulda thunk it? Cool. It’s the new hot. And vice-versa.
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