This weekend, the #WorldWineTravel crew will be dishing on lesser known regions of the wine world. We will be posting our articles on our respective blogs and social media outlets. The wine world has expanded so much in the last 20-30 years that we now have a wealth of regions to try and grape vines to discover.

Traditionally,  grapes grow between the 30th and the 50th degrees of latitude, in both hemispheres. Climate changes has been changing the game however and the sites where grapes are planted are now also changing, with many regions growing grapes at higher altitudes. 

In the past, wine writers mostly concentrated on France, Italy, and Spain, Portugal, Germany and Austria. Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia, Moldova, Georgia, Czech Republic, and Serbia, are locations people began to discover later in the US. While wine has long been made in these places, longest of course of all in Georgia since it all began there, but the wines were less present in the US market. Today that has changed. While not widely represented, we can find wines from all over the world and aren’t we lucky.

Along the way, people began to explore Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Patagonia, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Turkey, Canada, South Africa, and Brazil. More recently we are now seeing some wines from Armenia, and from Asia – China, Japan, Korea, and India are all markets to discover as well, when we are able to find these wines in our market or when we travel there.

With climate change, locations such as the United Kingdom and even Sweden are now places people are looking to for new wines because the weather has changed and grapes can now ripen even in these far flung and cooler sites.

Closer to home, wines are now grown in all 50 states be it sparkling wines from Michigan to New Mexico, Vermentino in Texas and California, Cabernet Franc in the Tristate area, Petit Manseng in Virginia. A lot is happening in the ever expanding wine world and if you want to read more about what people have been tasting, read these articles by my fellow blogger which will all post between Friday, May 9th and Saturday May 10th. I know my wine travel bucket list has expanded considerably and I bet yours will too.

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Robin from Crushed Grape Chronicles dishes on “Liechtenstein, Valle d’Aosta and the Umpqua Valley – a few wine regions you may may not be familiar with”

Jennifer from Vino Travels posts “Blaufrankisch of Upstate New York’s Finger Lakes Region”

Martin from Enoflyz Wine Blog shares “Beyond the Usual: Discovering Teran from Slovenia’s Coastal Karst”

Gwendolyn from Wine Predator showcases “Discovering Virginia Wine + Cuisine via the Governor’s Cup Case 2025: 3 Red Blends with Ham, Gratin, Greens”

Cathie from Side Hustle Vino adds “Off The Beaten Vineyard in Guanajuato, Mexico”

Andrea from The Quirky Cork brings “Greece’s Most Ancient Grape Finds a Home on the Slopes of Meliton”

Camilla from Culinary Cam writes “Rkatsiteli: An Ancient Grape from the Oldest Wine-Producing Region on Earth”

Terri from Our Good Life joins with “New-to-Me Wine Region: Affinitas Sarga Muskotaly in Hungary”

Wendy from A Day in the Life On The Farm pens “Sipping a Chardonnay from the Fingers Lake Area”

And here at Avvinare, I write about “Discovering Brda in Slovenia”

I can’t wait to read all of these posts over the weekend – #WorldWineTravel.