Ryan Zepaltas was just starting his career as a yeoman winemaker and, unable to afford expensive wines, he found himself scanning the shelf for white blends. These are often inexpensive wines ...

Largely red-wine vines cling, literally ... It now has a record of top-quality white-wine production, thanks to its supremely distinguished Godello grape, which was saved from near-extinction ...

It remains widely grown there today, but the variety became so popular in the 1970s that for a time it became nearly synonymous with "white wine" in the U.S. Today, almost every wine-producing region ...