New and Old World wines have been slugging it out with increasing ferocity ever since the popping of corks from Australian, South African and South American wines became audible in Europe a few decades ago.
But while super-serious "Sideways"–style debates about bouquet and “mouthfeel” are all very well, Europe still wins when it comes to variety and what, at risk of pretension, we should call “terroir."
Visit the vineyards of Europe, from Bulgaria to Bordeaux, via Bologna and Bilbao, and you’ll taste amazingly different wines in more rustic settings and situated far closer together than in the typically vast plantations of the southern hemisphere.
Source CNN Travel
