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Types of Wine Grapes

Aglianico​
Aglianico​

Aglianico is a red wine grape variety native to southern Italy. It is known to produce full-bodied red wines that show musky berry flavors with firm tannins and good aging potential. Even when grown in hot climates, Aglianico is capable of reaching high levels of acidity, which makes it a particularly useful vine in the Mediterranean.

Albariño​
Albariño​

My boss, a big "wine guy", ordered it while at a business dinner at a Mexican restaurant in New York, and I had never heard of the grape before. Although it's grown in popularity since then, it's still underappreciated which is an absolute shame.

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Aligoté​
Aligoté​

Aligoté is a white grape used to make dry white wines, especially in the Burgundy region of France where it was first recorded in the 18th century. Tolerant to cold, this variety is also cultivated in Eastern European countries such as Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, and Bulgaria.

Barbera​
Barbera​

Barbera is a red Italian wine grape variety that, as of 2000, was the third most-planted red grape variety in Italy (after Sangiovese and Montepulciano). It produces good yields and is known for deep color, low tannins and high levels of acid.

BlaufräNkisch​
BlaufräNkisch​

Blaufränkisch (German for blue Frankish) is a dark-skinned variety of grape used for red wine. Blaufränkisch, which is a late-ripening variety, produces red wines which are typically rich in tannin and may exhibit a pronounced spicy character.

Cabernet ​Franc​
Cabernet ​Franc​

Cabernet Franc is lighter than Cabernet Sauvignon, making a bright pale red wine that contributes finesse and lends a peppery perfume to blends with more robust grapes. Depending on the growing region and style of wine, additional aromas can include tobacco, raspberry, bell pepper, cassis, and violets.

Cabernet ​Sauvignon​
Cabernet ​Sauvignon​

In the seventeenth century in southwestern France, an accidental breeding occurred between a red Cabernet Franc grape plant and a white Sauvignon Blanc grape plant and thus was born the most popular grape among American wine drinkers: Cabernet Sauvignon.

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Carignan​
Carignan​

Carignan is a curious red wine grape that provokes strong reactions in those who know about it. Yet, despite the fact it was the single most common vine variety planted in the world's most important wine producer France until it was overtaken by Merlot at the end of the 20th century, most wine drinkers have never heard of it.

Carménère​
Carménère​

Carménère is now considered the national grape of Chile, known as a great wine the world over for meat dishes and BBQs, but it wasn’t always so well known by the wine drinkers of the world. Carménère was born, like a majority of the world’s prominent grapes, in the French wine region of Bordeaux.

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Chasselas​
Chasselas​

Chasselas is the most important and widely planted white wine grape variety in Switzerland. and is particularly common in the Vaud region. On the vine, Chasselas tends to ripen early, making it a good match for Switzerland's cool alpine slopes.

Chenin Blanc​
Chenin Blanc​

Chenin blanc (known also as Pineau de la Loire among other names) is a White wine grape variety from the Loire Valley of France. Its high acidity means it can be used to make everything from sparkling wines to well-balanced dessert wines, although it can produce very bland, neutral wines if the vine's natural vigor is not controlled.

Cinsaut​
Cinsaut​

Cinsaut (often spelled Cinsault) is a dark-skinned grape variety traditionally used as a blending partner for Grenache, Syrah and Mourvedre as part of the classic Southern Rhone blend. It is fairly unusual to see Cinsaut produced as a varietal wine, except as a rosé, in which it expresses itself as a light, aromatic and refreshing wine.

Dolcetto​
Dolcetto​

Dolcetto [dolˈtʃetto] is a black Italian wine grape variety widely grown in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy.

Dornfelder​
Dornfelder​

Dornfelder is a relatively recent arrival on the wine grape scene, having been created in 1956 by August Herold as a crossing of Helfensteiner and Heroldrebe. However, since Helfensteiner and Heroldrebe are also crossings, its lineage includes almost every red wine grape grown in Germany.

GewüRztraminer​
GewüRztraminer​

Gewurztraminer Wine Gewurztraminer (Gewürztraminer in German-language areas) is a pink-skinned grape variety that produces some of the world's most distinctive aromatic wines. Its perfumed style is somewhat polarizing; fans adore its intense floral scent and sweet-spice flavors, while detractors lament its low acidity and lack of subtlety.

Grenache​
Grenache​

Grenache is known for its berry flavors of bright strawberries and raspberries and notes of white pepper, with many people even saying that the wine has the unmistakable flavor of a fruit roll-up! The Garnacha grape was born in the northern region of Spain known as Aragon.

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Lagrein​
Lagrein​

Lagrein Wine Lagrein is an ancient grape variety that finds its home in the sunny vineyards of Trentino-Alto Adige in northeastern Italy. Its wines are strong and full bodied with plum and wild cherry flavors, and the variety is particularly well known for the deep, dense color it imparts on wines.

Lambrusco​
Lambrusco​

Lambrusco (/ l æ m ˈ b r ʊ s k oʊ /; Italian: [lamˈbrusko]) is the name of both an Italian red wine grape and a wine made principally from the grape. The grapes and the wine originate from four zones in Emilia-Romagna and one in Lombardy, principally around the central provinces of Modena, Parma, Reggio nell'Emilia, and Mantua.

Malbec​
Malbec​

Malbec (pronounced ) is a purple grape variety used in making red wine. The grapes tend to have an inky dark color and robust tannins, and are known as one of the six grapes allowed in the blend of red Bordeaux wine.

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Mataro​
Mataro​

What is Mataro Wine? Hot climates are required to grow Mataro grapes as well as plenty of water. Mataro is often used to make blended red wine, fortified wine and rosé. There are also some very fine examples of single-varietal Mataro wines from South Australia and New South Wales.

Merlot​
Merlot​

Merlot, which in French means The Little Blackbird, is the second most popular red grape in America (after Cabernet Sauvignon). Known for being soft, ripe and elegant, most Merlots are easy drinking reds that go well both with food as well as on their own.

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Montepulciano​
Montepulciano​

A Montepulciano d'Abruzzo wine made from the Montepulciano grape in the Abruzzo region. The following is a list of DOCs and DOCGs that include Montepulciano as a permitted grape variety, along with other grapes that may be included in the blend under varying percentages that are regulated under the DOC/G label.

MüLler-​Thurgau​
MüLler-​Thurgau​

Müller-Thurgau is a white grape variety (sp. Vitis vinifera) which was created by Hermann Müller from the Swiss Canton of Thurgau in 1882. It is a crossing of Riesling with Madeleine Royale. It is used to make white wine in Germany, Austria, Northern Italy, Hungary, England, Australia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, New Zealand, the United States and Japan.

Muscat​
Muscat​

Serious Muscat d'Alsace is more difficult to find than serious Alsace wines made from Riesling, Pinot Gris and Gewurztraminer but they do exist. Muscat Hamburg is a table grape but has been vinified in its time, and Muscat Bailey A is a Japanese speciality. One important role of Muscat today is as a blending ingredient.

Muscat of ​Alexandria​
Muscat of ​Alexandria​

Use fresh, dried, and for juices or wine. Susceptible to powdery mildew, they require regular dusting or spraying with sulfur or other mildew control. May grow successfully in very warm sites at lower elevations, and require deep, moderately fertile soils and regular pruning for high quality and production.

Nebbiolo​
Nebbiolo​

Nebbiolo is a red wine that was born in the mountains of northern Italy in the region of Piedmont. This is the region that’s famous for its Barolo and Barbaresco wine, which can fetch hundreds of dollars per bottle, but what many don’t realize is that Nebbiolo is the sole grape used to make these high-end wines.

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Negroamaro​
Negroamaro​

Negroamaro is a dark-skinned grape variety that has been associated with the Puglia region in southern Italy for at least 1500 years. Most commonly found in a blend, alongside Primitivo, Malvasia Nera, Sangiovese or Montepulciano, Negroamaro is valued for its deep color, medium-full tannins and dark berryfruit flavors.

Nero d'Avola​
Nero d'Avola​

Nero d'Avola (Italian pronunciation: [ˈneːro ˈdaːvola]; "Black of Avola" in Italian) is "the most important red wine grape in Sicily" and is one of Italy's most important indigenous varieties.

Pedro ​Ximénez​
Pedro ​Ximénez​

Pedro Ximénez (also known as PX and many other variations) is the name of a white Spanish wine grape variety grown in several Spanish wine regions but most notably in the Denominación de Origen (DO) of Montilla-Moriles.

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Petit Verdot​
Petit Verdot​

Petit Verdot is a hardy grape with a lot of tannin. That makes Petit Verdot in wine and food pairings a natural fit for rich, meat dishes, grilled steak, spicy pork, veal, lamb, all types of game and sausage. Spicy foods pair well with Petit Verdot and it’s perfect for a myriad of different hard and semi soft cheeses.

Petite Sirah​
Petite Sirah​

Petite Sirah Wine Grape, Flavor, Character, History, Wine Food Pairing Petite Sirah Wine Grapes Petite Sirah earned its name from the small size of the berries and not the name of the wine.

Pinot Blanc​
Pinot Blanc​

Pinot blanc is a white wine grape. It is a point genetic mutation of Pinot noir. Pinot noir is genetically unstable and will occasionally experience a point mutation in which a vine bears all black fruit except for one cane which produces white fruit.

Pinot Gris​
Pinot Gris​

Pinot gris, pinot grigio or Grauburgunder is a white wine grape variety of the species Vitis vinifera. Thought to be a mutant clone of the pinot noir variety, it normally has a grayish-blue fruit, accounting for its name but the grapes can have a brownish pink to black and even white appearance.

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Pinot Meunier​
Pinot Meunier​

Pinot Meunier, pronounced [pi.no mø.nje], also known as Meunier or Schwarzriesling, is a variety of black wine grape most noted for being one of the three main varieties used in the production of Champagne (the other two are the black variety Pinot noir and the white Chardonnay).

Pinot Noir​
Pinot Noir​

Pinot Noir was born in the Burgundy region of France, and it’s in Burgundy where the best Pinot Noir is still produced. Like many other regions of France, Pinot Noir producers do not refer to their Pinot Noir wine as Pinot Noir, but instead call it red Burgundy, after the region where it’s made.

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Pinotage​
Pinotage​

Pinotage is South Africa's signature red wine grape. A gutsy cross between Pinot Noir and Cinsault rarely found anywhere else in the world, Pinotage is a one-of-a-kind rustic red wine that is earthy, fruit-driven and perfect for pairing with all sorts of barbecue.

Refosco​
Refosco​

There are several varieties of refosco family: Refosco dal peduncolo rosso - probably the most internationally recognizable refosco wine. Cluster has the red stalk (peduncle), referring to the red stem that holds the grapes to the vine.

Riesling​
Riesling​

Reece-ling' must be the world's most misunderstood, and mispronounced, grape variety. Acknowledged king of German vineyards, this variety happens to share a name with so many other unrelated grapes and wines such as Emerald Riesling, Riesling Italico, Laskirizling, Olaszrizling and Welschriesling.

Sangiovese​
Sangiovese​

This landlocked wine region is the traditional home of Sangiovese and has had the biggest influence on its stylistic evolution. The wines must be at least 80% Sangiovese and vintners can add indigenous (Canaiolo and Colorino) or international (Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot) varieties to their blends.

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Saperavi​
Saperavi​

Saperavi (Georgian: საფერავი; literally "paint, dye, give color") is an acidic, teinturier-type grape variety native to Georgia (country), where it is used to make many of the region's most well-known wines.

Sauvignon ​Blanc​
Sauvignon ​Blanc​

Sauvignon blanc is planted in many of the world's wine regions, producing a crisp, dry, and refreshing white varietal wine. The grape is also a component of the famous dessert wines from Sauternes and Barsac.

SéMillon​
SéMillon​

Sémillon is a white wine grape famous for the rich dessert wines of Bordeaux. Find out the secrets to Sémillon wine; from food pairing to where it grows. Sémillon is a white wine grape famous for the rich dessert wines of Bordeaux.

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Shiraz​
Shiraz​

Let’s clear something up right away: Syrah and Shiraz are the exact same wine. When Syrah (Sih-Rah) arrived in Australia from its birthplace in France, Australian winemakers took to calling it Shiraz (Shi – RAZ), instead of the grape’s original name, Syrah.

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Silvaner​
Silvaner​

Sylvaner or Silvaner is a variety of white wine grape grown primarily in Alsace and Germany, where its official name is Grüner Silvaner.

Tannat​
Tannat​

Tannat is a red wine grape, historically grown in South West France in the Madiran AOC, and is now one of the most prominent grapes in Uruguay, where it is considered the "national grape". It is also grown in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Peru, South Africa, Bolivia, and in the Italian region of Apulia, where it is used as a blending grape.

Tempranillo​
Tempranillo​

Tempranillo (also known as Ull de Llebre, Cencibel, and Tinta del Pais in Spain, Aragonez or Tinta Roriz in Portugal, and several other synonyms elsewhere) is a black grape variety widely grown to make full-bodied red wines in its native Spain.

Verdicchio​
Verdicchio​

Verdicchio is the principal grape behind two Denominazione di Origine Controllata (DOC) wines produced in the provinces of Macerata and Ancona, Verdicchio di Matelica and Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi. In addition to producing still wines, Verdicchio grapes are also used to make sparkling wine and straw wine.

Viognier​
Viognier​

Viognier (French pronunciation: ) is a white wine grape variety. It is the only permitted grape for the French wine Condrieu in the Rhône Valley. Outside of the Rhône, Viognier can be found in regions of North and South America as well as Australia, New Zealand, the Cape Winelands in South Africa and Israel.

Welschriesling​
Welschriesling​

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Zinfandel​
Zinfandel​

Zinfandel (also known as Primitivo) is a variety of black-skinned wine grape. The variety is grown in over 10 percent of California vineyards.

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