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Canada & Virginia: Quietly Achieving Greatness

Some great wine regions are where you might least expect them. Try Canada and Virginia on for size...er...taste.

Canada and Virginia: Quietly Achieving Greatness

by Dan Berger
July 25, 2008

Talk about unlikely places to find excellent wine: In the vast pantheon that is world-class wine, a handful of regions may be found in which the quality far exceeds our image of the them. Two such regions – Virginia and Canada - are reaching if not already achieving greatness in some wines which have yet to be revealed to the masses.

all it the tyranny of the glossies or simple failure on the part of wine lovers to be vocal enough, but a number of emerging wine regions in North America are being ignored, and unless they are recognized before the housing recession ends, thus making condo-demands on what is now vineyard land, we may be looking at a transitory story that will be told only in retrospect.

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