Wine Country Tasting Wish List Revised 2013 – James Meléndez / James the Wine Guy

I am essentially and fundamentally an explorer.  I want to taste and have a wide breadth of experience–after all it does betray the intellect to not have a full spectrum of experience?

I wrote Wine Country Tasting Wish List  because there are so many wine regions that I have not tasted wines from.

I did have some wine worlds where I had not tasted from in a while like Peru—even New Zealand.   What I am finding more often is that more wine regions once north of impossible to find now increasing available (slowly of course).

We do live in the best of times… rather the best of times for wine and also the entire beverage arts.  We have never had a period like this where quality is a top of mind thought for both consumer and producer.  More wines are traveling the planet—that is a great thing.  I feel privileged to taste the land of Italy at a given day or to find a wine from Lebanon, Bulgaria, Croatia, Uruguay to name a few with greater ease.  Also, no other time in history we are much more variety conscious—no longer just accepting a place but wanting to know what makes up the wine we are tasting.

Hence, here are a list of wine regions that I am looking for –let me know if you have any tips (beyond traveling there)—a revision from my previous article:

Landmark List

• Turkey
• Ontario
• Armenia
• Algeria
• Azerbaijan
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Luxembourg
• Liechtenstein
• Malta
• Tunisia
• Egypt
• Moldova
• Peru
• Finger Lakes
• Slovakia
• Serbia
• China
• Russian
• Jordan
• Bulgaria
• Ukraine

Need to Taste More:

• Puglia
• Sicily
• South Africa
• Canary Islands (Islas Canarias)
• Uruguay
• Mexico
• Lebanon
• Macedonia
• Morocco
• Israel
• Republic of Georgia
• Romania
• Montenegro
• Oregon
• Washington State
• Okanagan
• New Zealand

¡Salud!

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Wine Country Tasting Wish List – James Meléndez / James the Wine Guy

I am constantly on the pursuit for harder wine regions to taste wines from.  Even though the US is the world’s largest wine market is it on any and all levels of consideration the most complex. The complexity does not just reside in the large market base–rather it is due the most heavily regulated industry in the US–far more regulated than any other product category–and it is perhaps safe to say that wine is far more regulated in the US than any other country and albeit total combined regulation might not even stack up total US alcohol beverage control laws (40,000).But with this being said the US should be an ideal landing ground for all wines produced from around the world.  And yes many wines from abroad to reach land in the US but many do not.  I attend a lot of wine tasting per year and I do have a great access path for many wines but not all.
I do seek each year to taste a fair representation of wines from all wine producing nations and their appellations and yet many are hard to find a tasting path.

Here are a wines few that I am seeking out this year:

Wines from:

• Lebanon
• Turkey
• Armenia
• Algeria
• Azerbaijan
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Luxembourg
• Liechtenstein
• Macedonia
• Malta
• Moldova
• Morocco
• Republic of Georgia
• Romania
• Montenegro
• Peru
• Canary Islands (Islas Canarias)
• Uruguay
• Mexico
• Finger Lakes
• Slovakia
• Serbia
• Oregon
• Washington State
• Okanagan
• New Zealand
• China
• Bulgaria
• Greece
• Ukraine
• Puglia
• Sicily
• South Africa

And I have tasted wines from some of the above regions and have not had any wines from a few as well.  I want this year to be one of reach and depth of experience and to discover wines from undiscovered wine countries.And even surprising and I have mentioned in previous articles–I want to taste more wines from Australia, France (both well known regions and lesser known as well).  I tasted so few wines from Germany and Austria last year and look forward to taste more.  And I also want to keep up my tastings from regions that I consistently tastes wines from.

¡Salud!

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