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Priorat: How A Ruined Monastery Region Became One Of Spain's Most Expensive Wines
Same bulk-wine reputation as Languedoc-Roussillon, same rough era of reinvention — solved by doing almost the exact opposite.

Carménère: The Grape Presumed Extinct For 100 Years
An entire country's wine industry was selling the wrong grape for over a century, and didn't find out until a DNA test said so.

Port And The Douro Valley: The World's Oldest Wine Region
One trick — stopping fermentation early with a shot of spirit — built an entire wine style, in a region that wrote wine law before almost anyone else bothered to.
Georgia: The Cradle of Wine
Eight thousand years, buried clay vessels, and five hundred native grapes most of the wine world has never heard of.