Drinking around the world: The rise and rise of Thai wine
Monsoon Valley chief winemaker Suppached Sasoman, a leading star in Thai wine
Producing over a million bottles a year, Thailand is a little known but increasingly adept wine producing region. Vines have been planted there since the 1960s despite the humid tropical climate and the Thai portfolio is now considered by many as the ultimate in “New Latitude wines”.
Thailand’s dominant grape variety known as the Malaga Blanc – probably the Spanish grape Teneron, known in France as Panse de Provence – was introduced in the 1600s as a gift from a French diplomat on behalf of Louis XIV to King Naraj.