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Wine Varietals

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Wine Varietals

Merlot Wines

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Merlot wines are a rich and soft with the flavor of blackberries. Merlot wines are beloved because they are seldom harsh and not as acidic as a Cabernet Sauvignon with which it is often blended. Merlot wines have the added advantage of being rich and supple but only moderately tannic and, therefore, wonderfully drinkable from [...]

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Grenache Wines

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Grenache wines tend to be a pale red color with a flavor of sweetness. Grenache wines can also be made into a thick red wine, if the vines are pruned and cared for properly. Grenache wines are fleshy, heady, very fruity -  in its youth. Grenache wines tend to age rapidly, showing tawny colors and [...]

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Gewurztraminer Wines

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Gewurztraminer is an excellent and unique grape variety that is capable of producing some of the world's greatest and most memorable Gewurztraminer wines. Gewurztraminer wines have inspired flavor comparisons to lychee, rosewater, honeysuckle, mango, papaya, coconut, apricot, peach, and Jamaican allspice. To say that Gewurztraminer wine is deeply flavored and complex would be one of [...]

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Chianti Wines

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Chianti wines are Italy's most famous red wines. It used to be easily identified by its squat bottles covered in straw baskets, called fiaschi. Chianti wines are produced in Tuscany, in strictly delimited areas among the provinces of Florence, Siena, Arezzo and Grosseto. Chianti wine is based mainly on Sangiovese grapes but also includes other [...]

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Chardonnay Wines

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Chardonnay is the world's most popular white wine grape. Chardonnay wines homeland is the Burgundy region of France, where it produces sublime, complex Chardonnay table wines (in Champagne and elsewhere it provides the base for many of the world’s best sparkling wines), but it also flourishes in California, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina and South [...]

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Champagne Wines

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Champagne wine is without question the finest sparkling wines made in the world. Champagne is the name of the wine region located about 90 miles northeast of Paris. Champagne wines can contain up to three different grapes: Chardonnay, and the red grapes Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. Vintage Champagne wines are only produced in the [...]

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Chablis Wines

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Chablis wine is thought to have originated in northern Spain and grows well in a 'Mediterranean' climate. As a result, it is widely grown in many of the countries that border the Mediterranean Sea including France, Italy, Spain, and Algeria. Chablis is the most widely planted grape in France. It has also found a home [...]

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Carignane Wines

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The Carignane wine grape variety is one of the most widely planted grapes in the world. It's popularity stems from the high crop yeilds that it produces as well as the characteristics that it can bring to a wine. Carignane wines usually have red-fruit characteristics, deep violet and purple color, strong tannin structure and high [...]

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Cabernet Sauvignon Wines

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Cabernet Sauvignon is the grape responsible for the wines of Bordeaux's Medoc region, arguably some of the finest reds in the world. This grape performs well practically the world over, as long as it's not too cold, but in certain appellations in France, and more recently in California's Napa Valley, it produces Cabernet Sauvignon wines [...]

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