Comparative wine production statistics for China are a bit problematic because much of the wine produced is not pure grape wine but may be mixed-fruit wine, and the rules on what can be labeled Chinese wine are quite, er, flexible.
Louis, a chic oasis with top-notch treatments (for an additional fee) such as the caviar serum facial, a Balinese massage, and a clay and red-grape body wrap known as the di-vine wine all guaranteed to leave you positively luminescent by day's end.
But it's worth giving drinkers a little credit, since the odds of finding a tasty malbec are probably better than they are with any other wine grape, from any other country--at all price points.
As this article in Nature magazine tells, authenticators are raising their game, trying to perfect the extraction and purification of grape-skin DNA from bottles of wine, in the hope they will be able to reliably distinguish between the 2, 500 grape varieties.
"It has become an expensive hobby, but there is so much potential in Texas wines especially in this area, " said Pruitt, who grew up in near California's wine-rich Santa Ynez Valley and still sources much of his grape juice from there.
Since CEO John Jordon took over from his parents, who founded the winery, I think the wine has become slightly fruitier and fuller-bodied, but not in an aggressive grape way, rather more pronounced taste of blackberry and blueberry rounding it out.
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The Zinfandel grape is also widely used in the popular off-dry blush wine known as White Zinfandel.
While the two are synonymous (same grape) and some wine people deride fume blanc as simply a made-up name and marketing gimmick, there is more to the story. 45 years ago American sauvignon blanc was in its underappreciated infancy, overlooked by many quality winemakers, and what existed tended to be much sweeter and had a negative reputation.
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Pinot Gris-or its wayward Italian sibling, Pinot Grigio (same grape, different name)-just might be your next white-wine love affair.
In warmer regions--including those in most of central and southern Italy--the grape is picked early with an eye toward keeping its acidity up, and produces a relatively neutral-flavor grape whose chief claim to our affections is the crispness of its wine.
In warmer regions-including those in most of central and southern Italy-the grape is picked early with an eye toward keeping its acidity up, and produces a relatively neutral-flavored grape whose chief claim to our affections is the crispness of its wine.
Pinot Gris--or its wayward Italian sibling, Pinot Grigio (same grape, different name)--just might be your next white-wine love affair.
The star varietal is malbec, a red wine made from the malbec grape that is native to Bordeaux but actually thrives better in the high-altitude terrain of Mendoza than anywhere else in the world.
When I left -- my stomach full and cheeks rosy from wine and the chill mountain air -- Kevlishvili offered me a water bottle filled with more of his heady, homemade grape juice.
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