Viognier

Wine Style:
It makes a floral and spicy white wine, medium to full-bodied and very fruity, with apricot and peach aromas.

Flavors:

Origin:
Rhone in France

Found:
California, France, and Australia

An expensive and underappreciated white grape variety originating in the Northern Rhone and which in the last ten years has been increasingly planted in the Southern Rhone and the Languedoc.

It is a poor-yielding grape that is notoriously fickle to grow, being susceptible to a whole gamut of pests and diseases. Crucially it must be picked at optimum ripeness - if harvested too early and under-ripe the resulting wine can be thin, dilute and unbalanced, while if picked too late then the wine will lack the grape’s distinctive peach and honeysuckle aroma.

In the appellation of Condrieu, it is most successfully grown in the tiny appellations of Chateau-Grillet and Condrieu where it thrives on the distinctive arzelle granite-rich soils. It is also grown in Cote Rotie where it lends aromatic richness to the wines when blended with Syrah.

Viognier has been on the charge in the Southern Rhone and the Languedoc throughout the 1990s and is now a key component of white Cotes du Rhone. In Languedoc and Rousillon it is increasingly being bottled unblended and with notable success with richly fragrant wines redolent of overripe apricots and peaches and selling at a fraction of the price of their Northern Rhone cousins.

The above grape has also made its way into California and particularly Australia where it is made into Shiraz/Viognier blends.

Further Reading:
Appellation America
Epicurious
Enjoying Viognier
Wine Geeks
Wine Pros
Wine.com
Wikipedia

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維歐尼

葡萄酒的風格：
它使一花和辛辣的白葡萄酒，中，以充分健全和非常水果，杏和桃的香氣。

口味：
幹杏梨桃花卉

資料來源：
在法國羅納

發現：
美國加州，法國，澳大利亞等

1昂貴，而且被低估的白葡萄品種原產於北部羅納而在過去的十年已越來越多種植在南部的隆河和朗格多。

這是一個貧窮的高產葡萄這是眾所周知的多變增長，正在受到整個域的害蟲和疾病。最重要的，它必須選擇在最佳的成熟-如果收穫過早下熟所產生的葡萄酒可以薄，稀和不平衡，而如果選擇為時已晚，然後將葡萄酒缺乏葡萄獨特的桃和金銀花的香味。

在稱謂的孔德裡約，這是最成功的成長，在細小的稱謂酒莊-格里耶和孔德裡約而發展蓬勃的鮮明arzelle花崗岩豐富的土壤。這亦是成長在科rotie它借給芳香豐富的葡萄酒時，混紡與西拉。

维欧尼就一直負責在該國南部隆河和朗格在整個90年代和現在的一個關鍵組成部分白色柯特斯杜羅納。在朗格和rousillon ，這是越來越多地被瓶裝unblended和顯著的成功與豐富的香葡萄酒redolent的overripe杏和桃子和銷售的一小部分的價格，其北部羅納 的表親。

上述葡萄也作出了自己的方式進入，特別是加利福尼亞州和澳大利亞的地方，這是製成設拉子/ 维欧尼共混物。