The Cabernet Franc proved that Argentina isn’t just a one grape wonder, earning accolades for its flavours of red currants, ...

Not all wine is created equal. Wine grape varieties have different characteristics (and different price tags). Malbec is a mouth-filling red with some specific characteristics making it the right ...

Wine is also impacted by a range of environmental factors, like the elevation at which the grapes are grown. “High-altitude ...

Some thick-skinned, deeply coloured grape varieties such as Malbec and cabernet sauvignon give a lot of colour to a wine. Others, such as pinot noir and garnacha, have thin pale skins so the wines ...

France is the ancestral home of the most-popular red grape varieties in the world. With the exception of tempranillo, the Top ...

While Malbec is the grape that put Argentine wine on the world map, many wine lovers have forgotten that this bold variety is a French immigrant. Frenchman Michel Pouget brought the grape to Argentina ...

From its origins in the rolling hills of Piedmont, Italy, to its present-day prominence at the foothills of the Andes, Bodega ...

French red blends are irresistible. Classic red Bordeaux cuvées are blended primarily from some (or all!) of five main varietals; Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and Petit Verdot.

Blending is essential to making some of the world’s most iconic wines. We explored the several ways to blend last week. This week, specific wines created by blending.

Same grape, very different wines. Also known as Cot or Auxerrois back home in France, Malbec from there is now often described as being more elegant—what some would call an old-world style ...

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