Wine

🇨🇭Valais, Switzerland

Fendant

A dry white wine from Chasselas grown on steep terraces, light and faintly flinty, the standard glass with fondue and raclette.

🇷🇴Romania

Fetească Albă

A bottled white wine made from Fetească Albă grapes, with floral aroma, fresh acidity, and a light orchard-fruit finish in Moldova and Romania.

🇷🇴Romania

Fetească Neagră

A bottled red wine made from Fetească Neagră grapes, typically dark-fruited and plummy with gentle spice and structured acidity.

🇷🇴Transylvania, Romania

Fetească Regală

A crisp, citrusy white wine from an indigenous Romanian grape bred in Transylvania, the country's most planted white variety.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Fino Sherry

Fino

The driest and most delicate sherry, aged biologically under a layer of flor yeast, pale, light, and served chilled as an aperitif.

🇰🇷South Korea

Floating Rice Wine

동동주

A type of makgeolli with floating grains of cooked rice on top, thicker and sweeter, traditionally served in a bowl.

🇮🇹Lombardy, Italy

Franciacorta

Lombardy metodo-classico sparkling wine.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Frankovka Modrá

Slovakia's main red grape, grown in the Small Carpathians, making a peppery, high-acid wine drunk young.

🇬🇦Gabon

Gabonese Sugarcane Wine

Vin de canne a sucre

A traditional fermented beverage made from sugarcane juice; sold alongside palm wine at depots like PK6 in Libreville; sweet, tangy, and mildly alcoholic.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Gamza

Гъмза

Indigenous red wine grape from north-western Bulgaria.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Gemischter Satz

Gemischter Satz is a Viennese field blend in which several grape varieties grow, ripen and are harvested together in one vineyard.

🇩🇰Denmark

Gløgg (Mulled Wine)

Gløgg

Danish mulled wine combines red wine with cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, almonds, and raisins for a warming seasonal drink.

🇳🇴Norway

Gløgg (Mulled Wine)

Gløgg

A Norwegian mulled wine with cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, and orange, served warm with raisins and almonds. A national and Christmas stapled festive classic, a winter and market treat, a spiced and warm wine, a drink.

🇮🇱Israel

Golan Heights Wine

יין רמת הגולן

Cool-climate wines from volcanic soils at altitude on the Golan, the region that started Israel's shift to serious winemaking in the 1980s.

🇲🇹Gozo, Malta

Gozo/Għawdex DOK Wine

Inbid DOK Għawdex

Gozo/Għawdex DOK Wine is the protected wine identity for registered wines made on Gozo.

🇷🇴Romania

Grasă de Cotnari

A sweet white wine from botrytised grapes grown on one northern hillside, historically served at European courts.

🇭🇷Slavonia, Croatia

Graševina Wine

Graševina

In Slavonia, Graševina is a fresh or aged white wine with apple, floral, and mineral notes from the region’s leading grape.

🇵🇱Poland

Grzaniec

Polish mulled wine, red wine heated with cloves, cinnamon, and orange, served warm. A winter and Christmas-market staple, sweet and spicy, served in a mug, a festive drink.

🇦🇹Austria

Grüner Veltliner

Austria's signature white wine, known for peppery notes and food versatility, good acidity with characteristic white pepper notes, a national icon.

🇰🇷South Korea

Herbal Rice Wine

백세주

A herb-infused rice wine with ginseng as the dominant flavor, blended with goji berries, ginger, and cinnamon, at 13% ABV.

🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Hermitage

Hermitage is a named French wine appellation associated with Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, defined by its terroir and regulated style.

🇩🇪Hesse, Germany

Hessian Apple Wine

Hessischer Apfelwein

Traditional cider from Frankfurt and Hesse, dry and tart with 5-7% ABV, served in diamond-patterned glasses.

🇨🇭Valais, Switzerland

Humagne Rouge

A robust red wine from a rare indigenous Valais grape, producing structured, tannic wines with wild berry and herb notes.

🇦🇹Austria

Ice Wine

Eiswein

Noble sweet wine made from grapes frozen naturally on the vine at -7°C, high sugar concentration with balancing acidity, concentrated and rare.

🇨🇦Canada

Icewine

Sweet wine made from grapes frozen on the vine, Niagara Peninsula specialty requiring extreme winter conditions.

🇰🇵North Korea

Insam Ju

인삼주

Ginseng wine or liquor, made by steeping Korean ginseng in alcohol; North Korea is a major producer of ginseng, particularly from Kaesong; the ginseng imparts an earthy, bitter flavor; considered medicinal and consumed in small amounts; a traditional Korean tonic that reflects the importance of ginseng in Korean culture.

🇿🇦South Africa

Jerepigo

A South African sweet dessert wine with a dash of brandy, a fortified and national classic

🇦🇱Shkodër, Albania

Kallmet

Kallmet is a red wine made from the northern Albanian Kallmet grape around Shkodër, with dark fruit and firm acidity.

🇸🇨Seychelles

Kalou

Traditional palm wine made from the sap of coconut palms; a mildly alcoholic drink that has been part of Seychellois culture for centuries; the sap is collected from cut flower buds and ferments naturally; a refreshing, slightly sweet drink enjoyed at gatherings.

🇰🇮Kiribati

Kaokioki

Timbakatai

Fermented coconut sap; a traditional Kiribati alcoholic drink or coconut wine; made by fermenting te karewe (fresh coconut sap); similar to fermented toddy/tuba in other Pacific islands; the most important traditional alcoholic beverage before imported beer; a link to pre-colonial I-Kiribati culture.

🇬🇪Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, Georgia

Khvanchkara

Ხვანჭკარა

A semi-sweet Georgian red wine from the Khvanchkara micro-region of Racha.

🇩🇰Denmark

Kijafa

Kijafa is a wine from Faaborg, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇬🇪Kakheti, Georgia

Kindzmarauli

Ქინძმარაული

A naturally semi-sweet red from Saperavi grown in one appellation, the sweetness left by stopping fermentation rather than by adding sugar.

🇲🇪Lake Skadar, Montenegro

Kratošija

An old Montenegrin red grape, shown by DNA work to be the same variety as Primitivo and Zinfandel, and still grown around Lake Skadar.

🇲🇪Podgorica, Montenegro

Krstač

An indigenous white grape named for the cross its bunches form, making dry wines with quince and dried-herb notes.

🇮🇹Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Lambrusco

Emilian sparkling red wine, slightly sweet or dry, drunk cold with salumi and pasta. The everyday wine of Emilia-Romagna.