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Wine Varietals

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Wine Varietals

Zinfandel Wines

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Zinfandel wines come from a red-skinned wine grape popular in California for its intense fruitiness and lush texture. Vintners use Zinfandel wine grapes to produce a wide range of Zinfandel wines styles including sweet White Zinfandels, light bodied reds reminiscent of Beaujolais Nouveau, full bodied dry reds, sweet late harvest dessert wines, and ports. Vintners [...]

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White Zinfandel Wines

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White Zinfandel wines are blush wines made in California from early-picked Zinfandel grapes. The red grapes are quickly separated from their skins during crushing and fermentation so that the resulting wine is very light pink; thus these wines have far less color, alcohol and flavors than normally fermented Zinfandels. These blush wines have gained acclaim [...]

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Semillon Wines

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Semillon wines are one of the subtle whites in the world of wine. For a low-acid wine, Semillon wines take to bottle age surprisingly well, and it's often inexpensive enough to make laying some down for five years or so very easy. In Bordeaux, Semillon wine is used to fill out the leaner and higher [...]

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Sauvignon Blanc Wines

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Sauvignon Blanc wines are crisp, high in acidity and light- to medium-bodied, and Sauvignon Blanc wine is recognizable for its grassy, herbaceous flavor and aroma. When grown in warmer climates the flavors are more fruity, melon-like. The grape is important in California, New Zealand and Northeastern Italy, but it really shines in France's Loire Valley [...]

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Riesling Wines

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The most famous cool climates for Riesling wines are in Germany, Austria, and the Alsace region of France. In these places, Riesling wine can be dazzling, with intense mineral and peach flavors and breathtaking clarity and transparency. Similarly, the cool vineyards of upper New York state, Washington, Ontario, British Columbia, and New Zealand can produce [...]

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Pinot Noir Wines

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Pinot Noir wines, one of the great red wines of France’s Burgundy region, is produced by one of the world’s most challenging grape varieties - both to grow and vinify. For every great pinot noir wine, there are a dozen poor or mediocre versions, and this is true wherever pinot noir wine is made the [...]

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Pinot Gris Wines

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Pinot Gris is a first class grape variety grown in Alsace, where it is known as Tokay Pinot Gris, and in Italy, where it is called Pinot Grigio and is widely planted in Friuli-Venezia and the Alto Adige. In Alsace it is best suited to the deep, clay rich soils found in the north of [...]

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Pinot Blanc Wines

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Pinot Blanc wines probably set the record for the number of ways a wine can be presented in a bottle among the white wines of the world. Depending on the country in which the grapes are grown and the winemaker's personal approach to fashioning a wine out of the grape, pinot blanc wines can range [...]

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Petite Sirah Wines

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Petite Sirah wines perform best in mild coastal regions, and produces intensely peppery wines with substantial tannins. The colors of Petite Sirah wines range from a rich red to an almost inky deep purple. This wine is big, deep-colored, full-bodied wine that ages well, are high in tannin and have a peppery flavor. Although Petite [...]

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Muscat Wines

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Muscat wines have a long, rich history throughout the world. Known as Muscato in Italy and Moscatel in Iberia, the name refers to a family of related varieties, sub-varieties and localized clones of the variety including, but not limited to, Muscat Blanc and Muscat Canelli. It is believed to be one of the first wine [...]

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