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Petite Sirah Wine Style: Plum & blackberry flavors mark this deep, ruby colored wine. Usually full-bodied with chewy tannins. Flavors: Origin: Rhone in France Found: California, and Victoria in Australia. Petite Sirah = Durif: a grape variety for red wine, developed in the late 19th century by a dr. Durif. It was believed it was originally planted in France [...]
Pinot Blanc Wine Style: An almost neutral wine similar flavor and texture to Chardonnay and can be intense, and complex. Flavors: Origin: Alsace Found: Alsace, Germany, Italy, California, Champagne, Burgundy. A white grape which is grown in Alsace, where it is sometimes referred to as Clevner or Klevner, and in Germany and Austria, where it is known as Weisseburgunder. In Italy [...]
Pinot Noir Wine Style: It is smooth & richer than Cabernet Sauvignon with less tannin. Flavors: Origin: Burgundy in France Found: Most of the known wine world. From Oregon, and California in the United States to Australia and New Zealand This is thin-skinned grapes which are capable of producing some of the world’s most sought after wines with [...]
Rosé Wine Style: It’s also sometimes called blush. Any light pink wine, dry to sweet, made by removing the skins of red grapes early in the fermentation process or by mixing red and white. Flavors: Origin: Nil Found: Southern France, Spain, Italy, California Technically, a rose is an “unfinished red wine,” but the term seems so- secondary. Rose is a different sort [...]
Zinfandel Wine Style: It’s usually full-bodied with high alcohol content, full and fruity with spicy notes. Flavors: Origin: California Found: California This grape is California’s most distinctive black grape and is often considered an “American invention”, even though it originated in Europe. It is grown all across California though seems to perform best in meso-climates, which combine hot days and [...]