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8 of the Best Cru Muscadets From France’s Loire Valley

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Muscadet is the quintessential seafood washdown wine. Crisply acidic and often briny, it seems made for oysters, its most famous pairing. It comes from the far western Loire Valley not far from the Atlantic Ocean and, not surprisingly, the area’s many oyster beds. Muscadet is the name of the region and the wine, and the grape is the Melon de Bourgogne, which was rooted, as the name suggests, in Burgundy before it was transplanted in the Loire in the 16th century.
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9 of the Best Albariños From Spain’s Rías Baixas

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Albariño is a quintessential summer white wine. The popular Spanish grape variety tends to be light and refreshing with its ample acidity. It’s easy to drink on its own and an excellent companion to all kinds of seafood and appetizers. At a recent gathering, I was poured a glass of Albariño from Long Island’s North Fork, where the grape has taken root, as it has in Virginia and California, among other regions.
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17 of the Best Wines From the Country of Georgia

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By Edward Deitch Verified
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They are grapes you’ve never heard of. The names are mostly unfamiliar. Some are fermented and aged underground in massive egg-shaped clay pots, just as they were thousands of years ago. These are the grapes and wines of Georgia, a country that borders Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, and the Black Sea almost 6,000 miles from the United States — and just as far from the minds of most American wine drinkers. But that may be changing.
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