Adventurous wines – try something new

Growing Malagousia at Ktima Gerovassiliou in Greece

Before I started writing about whisky, I wrote about wine . It’s still one of my favourite things, and no matter how many whisky dinners I attend, for me, wine is the best thing to pair with food. When I was getting into wine, I didn’t know where to start. Should I choose a bottle by country? By style? Price? But the more I learned, I realised that the single-biggest factor in a wine’s flavour is the grape variety.

We all enjoy the big four – Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Syrah/Shiraz...