Wine
Wines from Hybrid Grapes Used to Be the Height of Bad Taste. No Longer!
Purists may shun crossbred grapes, but from Vermont to Quebec and even in Europe, modern oenophiles are wising up. Here’s what to drink.
Thanks to a crop of renegade, pioneering winemakers making stellar wines in New York, Vermont, Minnesota, famously frigid Quebec, and even Portugal, hybrid grapes are beginning to get the respect they deserve.
For decades, snob drinkers turned up their noses at the wines made from them as too funky, going so far as to describe their taste and smell as akin to animal fur. I have to admit I was one of them.