Esoteric Wines Add Notches To Your Belt

(WineFolly) - The excitement over esoteric wines is equivalent to the special feeling when you find a four-leaf clover or see a rare bird. It’s not that they’re pricey. In fact, many of these bizarre grape wines are comparatively cheaper because they fly under the radar. Their benefit is that they taste so unique from the norm that they’ll often give first-time drinkers an ‘Aha’ wine moment. An ‘Aha’ wine moment is when you taste something so different, it changes the way you think about wine. I like to refer to these wines as Eureka wines.

We went behind the scenes and asked the professional community on guildsomm.com what has been tickling their tastebuds. The answers come from sommeliers, retailers and distributors who have an ‘unquaffable’ passion for finding unknown producers and unique wines. Many of them serve wine by the glass and see unique varieties as great values and alternatives to offer their customers. Let’s take a look at what’s worth trying when it comes to esoteric wines.

 If you’ve already tried everything below then you deserve a gold medal. You know… in the wine Olympics.

Worth Trying: Esoteric Wines

Hondurrabi Zuri: Basque Country white

“I can destroy a glass of Hondarrabi Zuri. I’m down with anything that tastes like a lightning bolt in my mouth, is warmly welcomed at a newspaper-covered table spilling over with mounds of oysters (or crawfish, or crab, or shrimp, or any of those tasty sea critters), and which doesn’t knock me on my keister if I happen to down the whole bottle via porrón.”