Aligoté

Wine Style:
Medium-bodied, crisp, dry wines with spicy character.
Flavors:

Origin:
Burgundy only
Found:
Burgundy in France only
Bourgogne Aligoté is a light white wine blessed by high levels of acidity. People in Burgundy drink it young as Aligoté, which is sold cheaply in France is not a wine that can age such as others.
Aligoté stands for a white grape […]

 
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 […]

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.
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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 […]

Carignan

Wine Style:
None.
Flavors:

Origin:
Rhone in France
Found:
France, Spain, Italy and California
It’s also known as Carinena and Mazuelo in Spain, Gragnano in Italy, Carignane in California.
The berries are bluish-black, round and fairly large, with fairly thick, astringent skins. They hang in large, rather compact clusters that are short-stemmed, difficult to harvest, and susceptible to grape worms. They […]

Carménère

Wine Style:
A full-bodied wine with lots of fruits, spices, berries, smokes and earth best enjoyed young.
Flavors:

Origin:
Chile
Found:
Chile only
Carmenère is yet another grape that was eventually exiled from the Bordeaux blend. In the late 1800’s, Carmenère was brought over to Chile from France, and it never turned back. For a while, Chilean growers thought this […]

Champagne
(Blend)

Wine Style:
Light, fresh, toasty to yeasty, and dry to sweet.
Flavors:
Beside some comment on Citrus and yeast flavors, the sweetness varies from Extra Brut (at most 0.6% sugar) to Doux (more than 5% sugar). Champagne is considered one of the most food friendly wines and accompanies most fine foods.
Origin:
Champagne in France
Found:
France only. Other countries: Cava (Spain), […]