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Barbera Wine Style: It’s known for its high acidity, deep ruby color and full body, with low tannins and berrylike flavors. Recommended food pairings include braised veal and pasta with tomato and herb sauce. Flavors: Origin: Piedmont in Italy Found: Italy and California Barbera is planted extensively in Piedmont and south-west Lombardy and accounts for over 50% of the wine [...]
Barolo & Barbaresco Wine Style: Barbaresco: Elegant and full-bodied red. Suggested food pairings include Suckling Pig. Barolo: Full-bodied and powerful Red and can be enjoyed a few years after bottling. Suggested food pairings include Game Steak, Wild Boar, and Pasta topped with local Truffles. Flavors: Origin: Piedmont in Northern Italy Found: Italy Nebbiolo (内比奥罗) is is the key [...]
Beaujolais Wine Style: Typically light, fresh, fruity red wines with little weight and body. Flavors: Origin: South of Burgundy, near Lyons Found: South of Burgundy, near Lyons, in eastern France. Areas: Beaujolais-Blanc, Beaujolais Villages, Brouilly, Chénas, Chiroubles, Fleurie, Juliénas, Mouliné-àVent, Morgon, Regnie, Saint Amour. Beaujolais is a fruity, easy to drink red wine made in the Beaujolais region, just south of Burgundy [...]
Bordeaux Wine Style: Red: Full-bodied wine of complexity, fruit flavors and good length. Suggested food pairings and there are dozens include Lamb, and Game whether roasted or prepared as a Steak. White: Light to medium-bodied wine of good minerals and lime flavors. Suggested food pairings include Poached Salmon, and in the case of dessert wines, Cheese [...]
Brunello di Montalcino Wine Style: This is a full-bodied classic, aged Red with a good perfumed nose of intensity and fragrance. Flavors: Origin: Montalcino in Tuscany, Italy Found: Italy only Until the mid-1800s, the red wines of Montalcino were produced primarily from the traditional Tuscan Sangiovese variety. In 1842, the name “Brunello” was first mentioned by the priest Vincenzo Chiarini, supposedly [...]
Cabernet Franc Wine Style: A sibling red wine grape used in Bordeaux for blending with Cabernet Sauvignon. It is an earlier-maturing red wine, due to its lower level of tannins. Light- to medium-bodied wine with more immediate fruitand may carry herbaceous odors evident in unripe Cabernets. Flavors: Origin: Bordeaux [...]
Cabernet Sauvignon Wine Style: A host of aromas and flavors: Currant, Plum, Black Cherry & Spice, with notes of Olive, Vanilla Mint, Tobacco, Toasty Cedar, Anise, Pepper & Herbs. They are often full-bodied wines with depth; especially with bottle aging. Cabernet spends from 12 to 30 months aging in American & French [...]