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The Grape’s Journey: Winemaking Methods Explained

The Grape’s Journey: Winemaking Methods Explained

The whole business of winemaking, when you boil it down – which, mind you, is precisely what you don’t do to the grapes, unless you’re aiming for a really hellish...

The Grape’s Journey: Winemaking Methods Explained

The whole business of winemaking, when you boil it down – which, mind you, is precisely what you don’t do to the grapes, unless you’re aiming for a really hellish...

Pedro Ximénez

Pedro Ximénez

Pedro Ximénez — PX to those who don’t have time for extra syllables — is one of wine’s great paradoxes: a white grape best known for producing wines as dark...

Pedro Ximénez

Pedro Ximénez — PX to those who don’t have time for extra syllables — is one of wine’s great paradoxes: a white grape best known for producing wines as dark...

Poulsard

Poulsard

Poulsard is one of those grapes that seems to whisper rather than speak, and that is exactly its charm. It is an ancient red variety whose identity is inseparable from...

Poulsard

Poulsard is one of those grapes that seems to whisper rather than speak, and that is exactly its charm. It is an ancient red variety whose identity is inseparable from...

Welschriesling

Welschriesling

Welschriesling is one of Central Europe’s great shape-shifters, known by different names depending on where you are. Its older and more formal name, Riesling Italico, still appears in parts of...

Welschriesling

Welschriesling is one of Central Europe’s great shape-shifters, known by different names depending on where you are. Its older and more formal name, Riesling Italico, still appears in parts of...

The Role of Terroir in Wine Quality

The Role of Terroir in Wine Quality

Terroir is one of those words that makes wine people lean back in their chairs and smile as if they’ve just revealed the punchline to a very long, very French...

The Role of Terroir in Wine Quality

Terroir is one of those words that makes wine people lean back in their chairs and smile as if they’ve just revealed the punchline to a very long, very French...

Verdejo

Verdejo

Verdejo is the grape that put Rueda on the map. Grown mainly in this northwestern Spanish region, it has a long history that likely stretches back to the 11th century,...

Verdejo

Verdejo is the grape that put Rueda on the map. Grown mainly in this northwestern Spanish region, it has a long history that likely stretches back to the 11th century,...