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Chianti & Chianti Classico Wine Style: Medium in body, the grape typically carries strong tannin, high acidity and flavors of herbs and cherries. Chiantis are usually fruitier, light ruby to garnet colored. Flavors: Origin: Tuscany in Italy Found: Italy only Chianti: A blend of Italian red and white grapes, produced in Tuscany in northeastern Italy. The major component is [...]
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. [...]
Colombard Wine Style: A light-bodied, clean and simple wine. Flavors: Origin: Southern France Found: France This is an easy growing and productive variety, with earthy and steely character, that grows in hot climates, and, when well treated is a real nice basic wine, with hints of grapefruit. Regretfully, not many Chinese wine consumers and drinkers appreciate this varietal due to [...]
Cortese Wine Style: The grape produces a light-bodied, crisp, well-balanced wine. Flavors: Origin: Gavi in Italy Found: Italy only A grape which is one of the most renowned for producing Italy’s most expensive dry white wine, Gavi di Gavi. Cortese is a native grape variety of Alessandria in Piedmont and tends to perform best in the hills between Novi and [...]
Corvina Wine Style: This is a deep dark and spicy red grape. Flavors: Origin: Valpolicella in Italy Found: Italy only. Corvina is widely grown on the Veneto shore of Lake Garda and the hills of Valpolicella to the north and north-east of Verona. Sometimes known as Corvina Veronese, it is blended with Rondinella and Molinara to produce Valpolicella and Bardolino [...]
Côtes du Rhône Wine Style: Wines of Côtes du Rhône are very diverse although 95% of the production is red. They can be tannic and robust, or fruity and light. Flavors: Origin: Cotes du Rhone in France Found: France only. The appellation of Côtes du Rhône encompasses much of the land of the area, not to mention much [...]
Dolcetto Wine Style: The wines generally are low in tannins and acidity and are usually fruity and fragrant, often with hints of almonds. They are also ideal to go along with spaghetti with any red (tomato) sauce, grilled Portobello mushrooms and tomato and mozzarella salads. Flavors: Origin: Dolcetto D’Alba in Italy Found: Italy, California, and Australia Dolcetto roughly translates from Italian [...]