Originally Posted by
Badenoch
My go to choice to befuddle the wine snobs is Bulgarian wine.
It might be harder to do in Europe, but wine from the Bekaa valley of Lebanon will confuse the run-of-the-mill wine snob over here. It's not as easy to put your hands on it outside the bigger cities.
Even the local wine shops here seem limited to France, Italy, US, Australia, Germany, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, Portugal and Spain. I never see a gruner veltliner from Austria outside of the occasional German restaurant. I never see Lebanese wine. I can state with complete confidence that wine from Bulgaria doesn't make it this far.
Scarier still, you can find wines from Florida, Alabama and Georgia on the shelf here. Mrs BamaVol and I covered the Alabama Wine Trail about 8 years ago. Save yourself the trouble.