Forget Napa Valley and Tuscany. Here are 7 underrated wine regions I love visiting as a sommelier.

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Most people haven't had the full experience of trying Serbian wine.

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This Murky Liquid Is the Oldest-Known Wine, With a Horrifying Extra Ingredient

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Raise your glasses—and your eyebrows: A team of archaeologists has found the oldest liquid wine in a Roman mausoleum in Spain. The team determined it was a white wine, reddened by centuries of chemistry, and muddled with the cremated remains of a Roman man. Delicious.

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Why giant oak barrels are key to making some of the world's most expensive wine

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Luxury winemakers producing some of the most expensive wine in the world will pay up to $50,000 for a single barrel to age their wine. But not just any barrel — a foudre. A foudre is a massive wooden vat that impacts and preserves the overall taste of the wine.

There's a simple solution to make wine more sustainable: sheep

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Whitehall Lane Winery in California.
Whitehall Lane Winery.

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Nobody reads website T&Cs even when there's free stuff involved — these guys proved it

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A screenshot of the now-archived webpage.

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There's so much excess wine that growers are ripping up vineyards and winemakers are destroying their product

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Winemakers embrace AI and IoT tools to improve their vineyards and produce better wine

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Alexandre Remy, the managing partner and winemaker at Atlas Wine Co. in Somerset, California, uses AI-powered software to create and test different wines.

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A $9 bottle of wine is going viral on X because its name is 'Josh'

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A selection of bottles of wine from Josh Cellars, including red, white, and roses, sits on a wooden-top table with two glasses of red wine and a corkscrew. In the background, a black-and-white photo of Josh, Joseph Carr's father, hangs on a wooden wall.
Josh Cellars's red wine has gotten attention on X, formerly Twitter.

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A Parisian wine bar banned TikTokers and hired a bouncer to control crowds after it became an unwilling viral sensation

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Folderol's "greeter" outside the wine bar in Paris, France.

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Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Red Wine Gives You a Headache

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New research may eventually help solve a mystery relevant to holiday drinkers. Scientists at the University of California Davis and elsewhere believe they’ve figured out why some people quickly develop headaches after drinking red wine but not other alcoholic beverages: too much of a particular flavonoid that mixes…

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