A grape you can buy anywhere is still worth travelling for when the places that grow it disagree with each other. These five are covered in more than one of our regions, which is the only reason they are here — a grape grown in one place is a region page, not a journey.
R 5 regions
The grape that makes the strongest case for travelling at all: it changes more from one hillside to the next than almost anything else, which is precisely why tasting it at home tells you so little.
Where to travel for itW 4 regions
The most travelled white grape in the world, and the one most worth seeing in place — it carries whatever it is grown in rather than insisting on a flavour of its own.
Where to travel for itW 4 regions
Riesling rewards travel more than most because the differences are geological and visible: you can stand on the slate, or the loess, and taste the argument for it.
Where to travel for itR 2 regions
Two regions on this site grow Syrah seriously, and they sit at opposite ends of what the grape does — which makes it an unusually clean comparison to travel.
Where to travel for itR 2 regions
Grenache in French, Garnacha in Spanish, and the grape most transformed by where its roots have to go — which is why the two regions here read so differently.
Where to travel for itBy place, with the region guides. By time available, with trip lengths. By month, with the wine year.