Wine of the Day, No. 819

A Vesuvian white wine made from grapes most of us have never heard of.

It’s always good to encounter wines made from unfamiliar grapes. I think most wine consumers get stuck in the rut of wines made from The Major Grapes — chardonnay

and sauvignon blanc; cabernet sauvignon, merlot, pinot noir — and don’t realize there’s a vast wealth of indigenous grapes grown in vineyards all over the world. The example today is the Cantin…