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Cinsaut / Cinsault
Wine Style:
This grape is usually blended in Châteauneuf du Pape to fruit flavors and tone down Carignan’s tannins. It’s known to be low in tannins, with a perfumed nose, medium-bodied with supple texture.
Flavors:
Origin:
Southern France
Found:
France, and South Africa
This is a light-skinned grape variety for red wine that withstands drought very well. This grape (also written as Cinsault) is widely planted throughout southern France and Corsica. It has also been important in North and South Africa.
In South Africa it is most famous as a parent of its special grape variety Pinotage. The variety with its light skin and soft perfume is particularly suitable for rosés. One can taste and smell ripe blue fruit, nuts and spices in the wines that are mostly used to blend and so soften and add perfume and fruit to the final blend.
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