8/15/2023 0 Comments Red grape varietiesCabernet SauvignonĬabernet Sauvignon is one of the most well-known and well-liked red wine grape varietals in the world. Here’s a closer look at each one, emphasising which wine areas use these grapes to make the best wines. In this post, we will tell you everything you need to know about ‘ Red Wine Grape’ including 20 varieties of grape like Merlot, Tempranillo and Cinsault. Soft, full wines.There are 20 different red wine grapes that are incredibly popular worldwide, despite the fact that only a few red wine grape varieties (such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Pinot Noir) may receive the majority of attention from wine connoisseurs. Marsanne: The increasingly popular partner with Roussanne of the northern Rhone (St Joseph, Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage) and now widely planted in the Midi. Gewurztraminer: Rich, soft wines of Alsace are made with this grape, fragrant of rose petals and lychees. Gamay: The Beaujolais grape making refreshing light red wine for drinking young.Īligote: Burgundy’s second rank grape, used in Kir (with blackcurrent Cassis), that in good years can ripen well to compensate its natural sharpness.īourboulenc: Ancient variety, probably originating in Greece and now widely planted in the Midi and making some of their best wines and important in the Rhone.Ĭhardonnay: The great white grape of Burgundy and Champagne and the sole variety in the world’s greatest white wines that include Meursault and Puligny Montrachet, but also Chablis, Pouilly Fuisse and Macon.Ĭhenin Blanc: Wonderful white and high yielding grape of the Loire that can make long lived sweet wines but also lovely crisp, honeyed white wines. Can nevertheless produce delicious wine, particularly when blended with Syrah and Mourvedre as in Corbieres.Ĭinsault: One of the less attractive of the grapes that make up Chateauneuf and for too long too widely planted in the Languedoc, but can be usefully blended. Spicy, herby, tannic.Ĭabernet Franc: A variety much blended with its more famous and widely planted namesake, except in the Loire (Chinon) and in St Emilion (Cheval Blanc its highest expression) where it can be more important.Ĭarignan: Hugely productive grape dominating the Languedoc, responsible for much of the wine lakes and an important constituent of Algerian wine in years past. Small grapes and many pips contribute to the high levels of tannin for long ageing. Ĭabernet Sauvignon: The world’s most famous grape for long lived red wine, originating in Bordeaux, but curiously unlike many much older varieties not much known before the end of the 18th century. Here follows a very short glossary of the principal grape varieties of the wines we sell by country, with very grateful acknowledgement of help from Jancis Robinson’s invaluable Wine Grapes, Penguin 2012 and from Hugh Johnson’s great annual Pocket Wine Book, both books every wine lover should have on their shelves. But it is the grape varieties that will determine much of the taste of the wine and therefore what it is you decide you like most and particularly pleases you. The terroir, its climate and position and above all the skill of the winemaker will determine how really good or great it is. An important step to a greater enjoyment of the almost infinite variety of wine now available, (and much of it incomparably better made wine in every country, and with every country now capable of making good, if not great wine), is to be able to identify the grape varieties that please you most. There are more than 800 grape varieties in the world, many extremely local but some of course global.
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