Sixteen countries
From Around the World
Wine is an argument about place. Choose a country to read how its vineyards came to be, which grapes define it, and what its best-known bottles taste like.
France
The reference point for almost every style of wine made today.
Bordeaux · Burgundy · Champagne
Italy
More indigenous grape varieties than any other country on earth.
Piedmont · Tuscany · Veneto
Spain
The world's largest vineyard area, and a country in creative overdrive.
Rioja · Ribera del Duero · Priorat
Portugal
Home of Port, and of a treasury of native grapes found nowhere else.
Douro Valley · Vinho Verde · Alentejo
Germany
The coolest-climate classics: Riesling of unmatched precision.
Mosel · Rheingau · Pfalz
United States
California's ambition plus a fast-rising cool-climate frontier.
Napa Valley · Sonoma County · Willamette Valley
Argentina
High-altitude vineyards under the Andes, and the home of Malbec.
Mendoza · Uco Valley · Salta / Cafayate
Chile
A phylloxera-free strip of land between the Andes and the Pacific.
Maipo Valley · Colchagua · Casablanca Valley
Australia
From century-old Barossa vines to razor-sharp Clare Riesling.
Barossa Valley · Margaret River · Yarra Valley
New Zealand
The country that redefined Sauvignon Blanc in a single generation.
Marlborough · Central Otago · Hawke's Bay
South Africa
Old-vine Chenin Blanc and a restless new generation of growers.
Stellenbosch · Swartland · Walker Bay
Greece
Ancient viticulture with grapes the rest of the world is only discovering.
Santorini · Naoussa · Nemea
Austria
Precise, dry whites led by the peppery Grüner Veltliner.
Wachau · Kamptal · Kremstal
Hungary
Tokaj, the world's first classified wine region.
Tokaj · Villány · Eger
Georgia
Eight thousand years of continuous winemaking in clay qvevri.
Kakheti · Kartli · Imereti
Canada
The world's leading producer of ice wine, and much more besides.
Niagara Peninsula · Okanagan Valley · Prince Edward County