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Two bottles say Riesling, both come from Germany, and both taste dry. One feels broad and firmly structured; the other seems lighter, with a parti

A steep German vineyard doesn't automatically mean a delicate sweet Riesling. The Mosel makes that style possible, among others; the Ahr is partic

A deep Cahors red and a pale Jura Poulsard have very different arguments to make. Add a bright Gascon white, a concentrated Jurançon and a nutty

“Southern French red” sounds useful until one bottle offers bright, fragrant fruit and another delivers a wall of tannin. Add a delicate-looki

The Northern Rhône makes an unusually convincing argument for looking up from a wine list. Some vineyards climb slopes where moving a basket of g

Sancerre and Vouvray both arrive in the broad Loire chapter of a wine course, but ordering one when you meant the other can produce a surprise. On

Put a pale Muscadet beside a mature dry Chenin, a sweet Layon wine and a Cabernet Franc red. The wines don't look like a tidy regional family port

An Alsace label can look unusually helpful: a grape name, a recognisable bottle shape and perhaps a famous vineyard. Then the wine arrives, and th

Chardonnay can make a taut Chablis, an approachable Mâcon-Villages or a concentrated Pouilly-Fuissé. That range isn't a puzzle to solve by assig

In the Côte d'Or, crossing a narrow path can change the vineyard name on the bottle. It doesn't magically replace one grape variety with another