From grand château tours in Bordeaux’s Médoc to a family lunch on the slopes of Mount Etna, this is our running collection of wine country — the vineyard visits, tastings, and wineries that taught us something new about a grape, a region, or a process we’d never encountered before. You’ll find the famous names — Chianti, Napa, Bordeaux — alongside the lesser-known ones that turned out to be just as memorable, like Crete’s Dourakis Winery or Tenerife’s volcanic-soil vineyards.

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