Wine
The Six Most Delicious Wines You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Pecorino? Nascetta? Gringet? If you don't know these long-sleepy grape varietals, get yourself educated. They're the next hot thing in wine.
A bunch of pecorino grapes.
Photographer: De Agostini Picture Library/De Agostini EditorialIn northern Italy last week, I tasted a crisp, earthy white from the bellone grape and a violet-scented red, recantina. I’d never even seen a wine from either grape before. Trust me, it’s only a matter of time until these come to a restaurant near you—they’re that good.
The current flood of delicious wines made from little-known grapes such as these can’t compete with floods of rosé being poured everywhere, but the vogue for exotic varietals is a trend that just keeps growing.