Delicate White Wines

As technology is improving, white wines are becoming consistently good quality.

Italy today makes some of the finest white wines in the world, including some made from Trebbiano, a grape variety that has been widely planted throughout Italy for a century. Constantine Pankin/Shutterstock

Just 40 years ago, wine was a kind of hit-or-miss beverage. But times change, and today almost every wine we see on the retail shelf or in a restaurant is perfectly sound.

Spoilage was so rampant in the 1970s that experts were employed at most upscale restaurants to make certain that the wines being purchased were sound and free of imperfections.