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.
This means that a great deal of the bad wine that tourists report being served is not really grape wine and may be a blend of a little Chinese grape wine and a lot of imported bulk wine of undetermined origin.
Grape wine needs to be only 50% grape wine (the rest can be made from other fruits), and Chinese wine needs to be only 50% from Chinese-produced juice.
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.
And yet, most of us cannot afford to purchase a wine stem for every grape varietal (currently Riedel offers wine glasses for everything from Chardonnay and Pinot Noir to Riesling and Cabernet Sauvignon).
The Red Bicyclette Pinot Noir single grape wine is hugely popular in the United States.
Scores are awarded for the correct identification of the wine's predominant grape variety, country of origin, viticultural region, subdistrict and vintage.
It is hard to find bad champagne, given how tightly regulated the grape and wine production is in a region famous for quality grapes.
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Gary was poised to do a keynote about The Thank You Economy, tape episodes of Daily Grape and Wine Library TV, and sign a few books.
Then drink in that Southern drawl beside the verdant 9, 500 square-foot villa that is Willow Creek Winery as you spend a day learning about the innerworkings of a vineyard from grape to wine and sip away all life's little stresses.
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.
To ease the transition from grain to grape, the wine institute believes it has found a perfect and readily available gastronomic companion: the Bavarian Weisswurst, a rubbery white sausage usually drowned in sweet mustard.
Wine DNA. Apparently, it's not unknown for underhand vintners to pass off one grape variety as another, and because wine is such a complex beast, how would we ever know?
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 was the fourth major purchase by a Chinese company of a wine property in the famed Bordeaux grape region since 2008.
Turns out the irrigated desert terrain, high altitude and resulting cool nights lengthen the growing season and create a more acid, but balanced, grape suited for sparkling wine.
He looks appreciatively at the Jersey cows grazing contentedly behind him and says that theirs is the pinot noir of milk, which makes very good butter (as the pinot noir grape makes very good wine).
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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Though Riedel makes hundreds of types of wine glasses, seemingly one for each grape and Mr. Riedel strongly recommends having multiple sets of glasses for different varietals I decided I'd use one type of glass for my swirling exercises.
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It is the most difficult grape to cultivate and coax into great wine.
The court ruled the 12 had deliberately and repeatedly mislabelled the wine as one of the more expensive varieties of grape in order to get a better price from E and J Gallo.
It was unlike any wine I'd ever tasted, and from a grape I'd never encountered before the Fer Servadou thought to be a cross between Gamay and Cabernet.
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In all the best Pinot Gris, whether produced as an Alsatian dessert wine or a crisp table wine from the foothills of the Italian Alps, the grape itself has the mojo to be the star.
While its 2009 Riesling has the distinct whiff of chalk, the wine is an age away in terms of taste and grape variety from the thrilling reds made from Syrah that for more than 200 years sold around the world, helping shape the family business: M.
There are exceptions, of course, and two of my favorites are both produced in New York: the Channing Daughters Tocai Friulano, a crisp dry white made from a Friulian grape, and a minerally white Rkatsiteli, a Russian grape grown by Dr. Konstantin Frank Vinifera Wine Cellars in the Finger Lakes district.
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Up in chilly Oregon, where they use the name "Pinot Gris, " the grape has become the state's signature white wine.
That was the year that Americans finally began to recognize the grape, according to Nick Ramkowsky, an Argentine wine importer.
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Jesse Salazar, wine director of Union Square, told me that most people who sought out Pinotage were "wine beginners" who had read about but never tried the grape, or people who had recently been to South Africa.
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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.
The wine was a 2007 vintage made from Georgia's indigenous saperavi grape.
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