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Gamay Wine Style: They are mostly immediately drinkable, light- to medium-weight wines with high acidity and low tannins. Flavors: Origin: Burgundy, Loire in France Found: France, and Australia Gamay is a native French variety planted predominately in Beaujolais where it is the grape behind everything from light and often acidic Beaujolais Nouveau through to the more serious and well-structured wines [...]
Gewürztraminer Wine Style: This is a medium to full-bodied white despite its red color, and produces a spicy, pungent (or blessed with a floral bouquet) white wine. Flavors: Origin: Alsace in France Found: France, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Austria, New Zealand, California, Oregon, Washington, and Australia. It is the second most widely planted grape in Alsace and the most widely planted in [...]
Grenache/Garnacha Wine Style: This is a sweet grape which is rich in alcohol, fruity, spicy, medium-bodied wine and often blended with other grapes. Flavors: Origin: France Found: Rhone in France, Spain, and Australia This is a strong grape which withstands extreme heat and warm climate well. It has a thin skin, little pigment and ripens slowly with a high level [...]
Grüner Veltliner Wine Style: It’s usually light to medium bodied, dry, with high acidity and an aromatic nose. It matches well with almost any kind of food, including the notoriously difficult such as artichoke and asparagus. Flavors: Origin: Niederösterreich in Austria Found: Austria only Grüner Veltliner is Austria’s most famous and exported grape variety. It is indigenous [...]
Hermitage Above: Black wine grapes from the Rhone Valley, probably of the Syrah variety used in Hermitage blends/labels. Bottles of Hermitage wines from Domaine Jean-Louis Chave. Wine Style: It is full-bodied and tastes almost Bordeaux-like flavors. Suggested food pairings include Beef and Filet Mignon. Flavors: Origin: Rhone in France Found: France and Australia Syrah [...]
Icewine/ Eiswein Wine Style: This is a full-bodied and rich wine and is most often made from Riesling grapes picked while frozen on the vine. It is concentrated and fruity with a zing of acidity to balance out the sweetness. Suggested food pairings include Foie Gras and desserts. Flavors: (Varies depending on grape varietal used, usually Riesling.) [...]
Malbec Wine Style: It’s full-bodied, rustic with softer flavors and firm tannins. Flavors: Origin: France Found: France, South America, Australia and Chile Malbec has a different name and is known as Auxerrois in Cahors, Cot in the Loire and Malbec in Argentina, since then, this grape has undergone a mini renaissance back in the 1990s, largely fuelled by [...]