A look at the varieties of grapes used for wine and Champagne production.
Wine Grape Varieties – Semillon
As Jancis Robinson says, ‘Sémillon is a very odd grape indeed’. It is capable of producing some of the greatest wines on earth, such as […]
A look at the varieties of grapes used for wine and Champagne production.
As Jancis Robinson says, ‘Sémillon is a very odd grape indeed’. It is capable of producing some of the greatest wines on earth, such as […]
Nebbiolo is a wine grape variety that produces some of the greatest dry red wines in Italy. More than that, as Jancis Robinson says in […]
This is probably a variety that not too many of you are familiar with. Touriga Nacional comes from Portugal, which boasts a huge array of […]
Merlot is grown all over the world, including Chile, Australia, New Zealand, China, Argentina, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Italy. In fact, some of […]
The Grenache grape started life in Spain as Garnacha, but has spread all over southern France, reaching its apogee in the vineyards of Châteauneuf-du-Pape whose […]
There is plenty to say about Chardonnay, and so I will spread my thoughts over two sections. In the first I will make some general […]
Here I’m deliberately choosing a grape variety which the great experts of the wine world would put further down the scale, after, for example, Merlot […]
Cabernet Sauvignon’s home is the Medoc in France, the heart of Bordeaux’s red wine vineyards. Here are the famous chateaux that have made claret the […]
Chenin Blanc, also known as Pineau de la Loire, is a White wine grape type of the Loire Valley, France’s longest river. It is grown […]
Syrah, which is sometimes also known as Shiraz, is a grape variety known for it’s dark skin. It is grown throughout the world and mainly […]
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