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Fashions come and go, sometimes for fickle reasons, sometimes because you can have too much of a good thing. Soave DOC was a victim of the latter: a white wine appellation east of Lake Garda in Italy’s Veneto, where winemaking cooperatives leaned into the popularity of this fresh white wine, to the expense of quality and reputation.
Recently, the Languedoc-Roussillon region has become a solid go-to for bargain wines. Value is about much more than a cheap price, of course. Besides being France’s largest wine region, at 215,000ha, this is one of its most exciting with a great diversity of grape varieties, terroir and winemaking styles; a heady mix of tradition and innovation; and an ongoing gear change from quantity to quality.
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We Irish love Albarino, and Albarino loves us: its spiritual home of the Atlantic-fringed Rias Baixas region in Galicia counts Ireland as the third-largest export market after the US and UK, by volume alone. We can both afford to spread the love then, Albarino and us. Today’s selection of white wines features friends from inland Galicia and south into neighbouring northern Portugal.