Category: WSET Level 4 Wine

Tokaj's most useful surprise may be a dry wine. The region's fame rests on extraordinary sweet wines, yet a dry Furmint reveals how much of the st

Grüner Veltliner is an excellent way into Austrian wine. It's a less useful way to explain everything Austria produces. A concentrated Blaufränk

A German wine list can move from Riesling to Silvaner, Pinot Noir, Trollinger and Pinot Gris without leaving the country. That diversity isn't a c

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