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Châteauneuf-du-Pape (Blend) Wine Style: Often big, rich, full-bodied with spicy and raspberries flavors with capability for 5 to 20 bottle aging. Flavors: Origin: Rhone Valley in France Found: California, Australia, and France The vast majority of wines from the Southern Rhône are blends. There are 5 main black varieties, although others are used and the [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Roussanne Wine Style: Mainly serves as a blending partner. The wines are full of aroma, fruity, sometimes with some herbs and can age well. Flavors: Origin: Loire Valley and Southern Rhone in France Found: France and California This classic grape varietal is famous for the white blends of Hermitage, St. Joseph and St. Péray. Currently this grape is losing ground to [...]
Southern Rhone Blends Wine Style: Full-bodied reds which are rich warm and have spicy, raspberry flavors. Their whites are usually crisp with good fruit flavors and enjoyment. Flavors: Reds: Whites: Origin: The appellation of Chateauneuf du Pape in Southern Rhone, France Found: Australia, Southern France, and United States Red Rhone Blends: The vast majority of wines from [...]
Viognier Wine Style: It makes a floral and spicy white wine, medium to full-bodied and very fruity, with apricot and peach aromas. Flavors: Origin: Rhone in France Found: California, France, and Australia An expensive and underappreciated white grape variety originating in the Northern Rhone and which in the last ten years has been increasingly planted in the [...]