Pinot noir gets all the attention in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, yet, as vineyard developments have spread south and west, pockets of chardonnay land have emerged, growing wines that may someday challenge the pinot noir status quo.

The growers on an archipelago west of Africa’s Moroccan coast are just beginning to understand their quirky inheritance: A seemingly random mix of vines brought to the islands centuries ago.

Like many people, Allison Bart thought of Aussie shiraz as hyperripe and oaky, until a bottle from the foothills of the Victorian Alps illuminated the country’s move to coolclimate reds.