This is an open-ended question: what forgotten European wine region is primed to reemerge in a big way in the next few years?
In the previous several years, it seems like Etna (Sicily) and Galicia/Bierzo (Spain) have really taken off with ambitious winemakers and established producers flocking to neglected old vines. While this is just a perception, it seems like interest in these areas has started to reach something of a steady state.
What’s next? Alto Piedmonte Nebbiolo seems like one possibility, between upward price pressure in Barolo and Barbaresco and an overall warming trend that has been making marginal climates more reliable. But then there are huge swaths of Italy, Portugal and Spain that probably have no clear point of reference. I’m very curious what those ITB sense will break through soon.
I think that Spain has mostly run it’s course (for now) meaning it will hold it’s growth curve but not really grow more then it has.
Portugal? I don’t don’t think people care about Tinto Roriz or anything other than Port.
Italy, the same, Piedmonte, Etna will continue to grow but I don’t see more of an explosion then what has already happened.
To me it’s Jura, with some really great undiscovered wineries at fair prices to what is being offered in other regions I see this as the next ‘big thing’.
I see someone making a $10 Jura wine that will take off and put the rest of the wines on the map. Of course this $10 wine will be slathered with oak and come from Eric Solomon or Jorge Orodnez new project lead by Cambie.
Having been to an extensive tasting of South African wines on Saturday night, South Africa would get my vote. Very high quality across the board, balanced and the best of them were had all the elements needed to age into something very interesting.
Great wines, but I don’t think they’ll ever be en vogue.
Really? I don’t think so. In my view, the trend is not going towards wines you’ll have to cellar yourself for 20+ years until they really become appealing and most definitely not towards sweet wines. That being said, vintage port in my view is one of the most under the radar great wines to be had at very affordable prices.
I’m curious why you see this, people have been saying this for seemingly the last 20+ yrs and it never occurs. I’ve seen people try to sell porto as futures which strikes me as hysterical; it always shows up on closeout and for a huge amount of wine lovers they only need to have a few btls in their cellar.
That’s easy Slovenian wine if they ever export it is expansive and dates back to over5 BC well before the Romans … The expansive microclimates and wild trellising systems have aided the production of so many grapes … Home of the oldest grapevine alive today producing fruit …
Old Vine, the oldest vine in the world, is the oldest living specimen on our planet of a noble grape vine that still bears grapes! With an age of over 400 years it is registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest vine in the world.
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