A derivative of another thread.
So, where is it in your opinion?
Jonathan Favre’s cellar
Washington DC
I already answered with Switzerland. Your move.
Expanding it on that: I’ve been following Swiss wine from afar for a number of years and it seems everything I’ve tried (with proper recommendation level, of course) is at the very least thought-provoking and very often lip-smackingly good. It seems they are doing well with imported grapes but also with native ones (Cornalin in particular but also Humagne rouge, Petite Arvine and so on). They have great terroirs, talented winemakers, the means to make their dreams come true, a systematic approach and a very supportive local market where wine isn’t necessarily treated as a luxury that absolutely has to be sold at insane prices. And I’d say they are still quite far from reaching their full potential. It’s definitely the one country I’m interested in right now.
Chile
Switzerland reminds me of Northern Rhone…you keep hoping that some new faces will show up and provide some dynamic but that is about as far as it goes. Hoping. I should be more optimistic, Cornas has been wildly progressive, maybe the Swiss have it in them too!
Honestly I like Burgundy for this (I better duck, I see all of the sh!t flying my way now). Everyone complains about the price hikes but everyone is also bananas over the quality one can find at almost every address on the Côte. You can find wines that are uber-bio and wines that are uber-classic and wines that fall at just about any point along the spectrum between. People are moving up to Hautes Côtes, moving south, moving north, moving any direction to find new land. And it seems plenty are successful at finding new parcels, old parcels, abandoned, revived, reinvented, whatever. Most complaints on this board regarding prices are related to the US system. Most of the wine I have purchased from Burgundy has remained the same price since 2009. I am happy to pay the current prices considering that the value added to the region has been remarkable in terms of the discussion above.
I have had wine from two Swiss vignerons that really moved me. There is plenty of good wine but it is the same good wine that has been here for 10 years. I am not complaining. But I don’t see the country evolving, growing, changing, diversifying, etc. A lot of the people working here make perfectly good wine but there are very few new faces, it seems a bit like an elite club (I could expand that feeling to many topics “Swiss”!).
Piedmont
Sonoma Coast
Old Vine wines from CA. I’m already heavily into these, but likely to take an even closer interest this year.
Germany!
Even I don’t believe that!
Great dry reds and whites from Portugal, especially the Douro, that don’t see the light of day over here.
I’m going with Alaska and Norway. Just waiting for climate change to kick in …
–Sicily and Mt. Etna in particular.
–St. Joseph
–The cooler parts of the Northern California coast, particularly Mendocino County (having tasted at Littorai last week)
–British Columbia (having tasted some excellent syrahs in September)
–Finger Lakes (some surprisingly good reds as well as whites)
In what sense?
Why? There are so many great wines in Germany that I am sure you have never tasted.
Not to mention the relative value of German wine versus other regions, which I am sure you know.
When was the last time you went to Germany?
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Excellent.
Paul, I agree that there is a lot of potential that could be better exploited.
But this is not the most risk-loving country in the world… To put it mildly 
Anyway, it was interesting and surprising to read those comments by Guillaume.
Also interesting to see Alex Richlewski start the other thread saying that the best non-Burgundian pinots are from Valais.
Perhaps vinous Switzerland is being discovered?
Another vote for Douro for what could be a premium region if they could find a way to market it. Also the Dão and Alentejo for great qpr.