GRAPE VARIETIES AND TYPES OF WINE
The grape varieties, i.e. the different types of vines, are almost all made from a single species: Vitis vinifera. Alone or assembled with others, The grape variety usually makes it easy to identify a wine and the region it comes from.
Each grape variety has privileged geographical areas, countries, regions and appellations, in which it flourishes best and where it gives the best wines.
Some grape varieties can be used to produce both white wines, rosé wines, and red wines, with the color of the wines usually related to the color of the flesh of the grape and the maceration time of the skin.
The date of the harvest and the winemaking and ageing techniques play a decisive role in the production of different types of wines, dry, sweet or sweet whites, natural dry or sweet reds, brut champagnes, extra-brut, rosé or non-dosed champagnes.
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A wine gift for lovers of U.S. wines and American grape varieties
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The 1971 vintage in Cahors is one of the very good vintages of the Cahors appellation. This 1971 Clos Triguedina offers very nice aromas of tobacco and spices around notes...
This 1980 Maury is a natural oxidative red wine that offers a beautiful tiled colour with mocha reflections and a clash of unlikely encounters: dark chocolate, fresh fig,...
This 2016 Crozes-Hermitage from Domaine de Thalabert is a certified organic red wine from the North of the Rhone valle. It is offered here in a 1.5-lirre Magnum...
This 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon from Pine Ridge Vineyards, is a great American red wine from the Napa Valley.
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Château Sansonnet 1978 is a Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classé wine, made from Merlot for 85%, complemented by Cabernet-Franc and Cabernet-Sauvignon.
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This 1978 Rivesaltes is a great natural sweet wine from Roussillon from Maison Cazes made from 80% Grenache blanc and 20% Grenache noir. With 40 years of age, it offers an...
This confidential cuvée of Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc Prestige 2010 from Domaine de La Janasse is a great white wine from the southern Rhône Valley, made mainly from Roussanne...
Château Croizet-Bages 1993 is a great red wine from Bordeaux in the Pauilllac appellation and 5th Grand Cru Classé of the Médoc.
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This Cornas Vin Noir 2021 is a red wine from the north of the Rhône Valley made from three slopes of old Syrah vines and aged for 14 months in barrels of three wines,...
Château Lafon-Rochet 2005 is a great red wine from Saint-Estèphe, classified as 4th Grand Cru in the 1855 Médoc wine classification.
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Château de Rayne Vigneau 1990 is a great sweet white wine from Bordeaux in the Sauternes appellation and 1er Grand Cru Classé.
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Château de Sales 1990 is a great Pomerol wine with thirty years of ageing. Its long ageing in the cellar gives it a rich and complex nose, with notes of roasted coffee and...
Château La Gaffelière 1994 is a great red wine from Bordeaux in the Saint-Emilion appellation and a 1st Grand Cru Classé of Saint-Emilion.
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This 2013 Blanc de blancs cuvée from Maison Philipponnat is made exclusiveley with Chardonnay from the Côte des Blancs, and from the first press of Premiers and Grands Crus....
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Château Marquis de Terme 1998 is a great red wine from Margaux 4ème Grand Cru Classé.
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Château Les Ormes de Pez 1990 is a great Bordeaux wine from Saint-Estephe classified as an exceptional cru bourgeois. A powerful and rich Bordeaux red wine in this exceptional...
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Château Fieuzal is a great red wine, Grand Cru Classé de Graves in the Pessac-Léognan appellation, offered here in the 1986 vintage.
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Château d'Armailhac 1991 is a great Bordeaux wine, 5th Grand Cru Classé in the Pauillac appellation.
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This Scharzhof cuvée is made exclusively from the Riesling grape variety and is produced by Egon Mueller, from the vineyards of the Saarburg, Oberemmel region and the...
Château Haut-Marbuzet 1979 is a great red wine from Bordeaux in the Saint-Estèphe appellation and is often recognized as the equal of the appellation's Grands Crus Classés....
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Château Cantemerle 1988 is a great red wine from Bordeaux in the Haut-Médoc appellation and classified as 5th Grand Cru in the 1855 Médoc wine classification.
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Château La Renaissance 2019 is a great red wine from Pomerol from a small vineyard of 6 hectares, on a soil of sand, clay and gravel, with 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc....
This Grain Cinq 2021 cuvée is a great white wine from Valais in Switzerland produced by Domaine Marie-Thérèse Chappaz located in Fully, made from a blend of three grape...
Domaine Remoriquet offers us here a beautiful red wine from Burgundy, a Nuits-Saint-Georges Villages Les Allots 2012. This vineyard is adjacent to the vineyards of...
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This cuvée R de Ruinart 2016 is a vintage Champagne made from 48% Chardonnay, 32% Pinot Noir and 20% Pinot Meunier, mostly from the Grands Crus and Premiers Crus of the Cote...
When tasting this Bollinger rosé cuvée, we observe golden reflections combined with the intense depth of a great red wine.
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This 2023 Saumur is a great white wine from the Loire valley, made from 100% ol Chenin vines, made by Domaine des Guyons in organic farming.
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Château Chasse-Spleen 2018 is a great red wine from Bordeaux, an exceptional cru bourgeois located in Moulis-en-Médoc.It is offered here in a magnum size, a 1.5-litre bottle...
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Château Prieuré-Lichine 1978 is a great red wine from Bordeaux in the Margaux appellation and classified as 4th Grand Cru in the 1855 Médoc wine classification.
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