Posts Tagged ‘Sauvignon’
Monday, February 13th, 2012
A good gift for man is a good Argentine wine. The market is full of good choices, these are just some examples.
Sometimes, a good wine gift can be a great option especially for men , since it is a bit trickier elect them good gifts. The idea of this paper is to review by any of Argentine wines that you can choose to make a good gift.
Best Blend of Argentine wines
Salentein Numina Grand Court 2007. This is a wine from the Valle de Uco, Mendoza , Malbec and composed of Merlot . His time of 16 months aging in oak barrels. This is a balanced wine, ripe tannins and long finish. The color is bright purple fruit aromas like gooseberry. Approximate cost 40 U $ D.
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Tags: Cabernet, gifts, Sauvignon, wine
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Sunday, December 4th, 2011
Increasingly popular as both stand-alone varietal and blending grape, Cabernet Franc is used primarily for blending in Bordeaux, although it can rise to great heights in quality, as seen in the grand wine Cheval-Blanc. In France’s Loire Valley it’s also made into a lighter wine called Chinon. It is well established in Italy, particularly the northeast, where it is sometimes called Cabernet Frank or Bordo. California has grown it for more than 30 years, and Argentina, Long Island, Washington state and New Zealand are picking it up.
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Tags: Cabernet Franc, grape, Red wine, Sauvignon
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
In order to appreciate wine, it’s essential to understand the characteristics different grapes offer and how those characteristics should be expressed in wines. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Zinfandel are all red grapes, but as wines their personalities are quite different. Even when grown in different appellations and vinified using different techniques, a varietal wine always displays certain qualities, which are inherent in the grape’s personality. Muscat should always be spicy, Sauvignon Blanc a touch herbal. Zinfandel is zesty, with pepper and wild berry flavors. Cabernet Sauvignon is marked by plum, currant and black cherry flavors and firm tannins. Understanding what a grape should be as a wine is fundamental, and knowing what a grape can achieve at its greatest is the essence of fine-wine appreciation.
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Tags: Cabernet, characteristics, Sauvignon, varietal
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Thursday, November 24th, 2011
Carmen winery is a stark concrete box, a modern anomaly amidst a landscape of rugged hills and dirt roads in a rural corner of the Maipo Valley. But it suits Alvaro Espinoza just fine. The winemaker, who designed the technologically advanced winery, is making some of Chile’s best wines.
Carmen is one of Chile’s oldest brands, established in the 1850s in the first wave of the Chilean wine industry. It changed ownership several times through the years, until the brand was bought in 1988 by Ricardo Claro.
Claro hired Espinoza in 1992. The young winemaker, son of one of Chile’s most respected enologists, had studied enology at the Catholic University in Santiago, then at the University of Bordeaux in France. After working at Château Margaux and Moët & Chandon, he returned to Chile in 1989 to set up Domaine Oriental, a boutique winery backed by Tahitian-French investors.
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
Chile offers wines Americans like to drink: fresh, fruity, with straightforward varietal character, at reasonable prices. Simplicity is the key to Chile’s success. The wines are made from grapes Americans already know and like: Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot for the reds, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay for the whites. Vintages hardly matter, because Chile’s vineyards enjoy temperate, semi-arid weather that ripens the grapes consistently from year to year. The appellation system is relatively primitive, and the big wineries tend to blend fruit from widely spread growing regions, so regional character is still blurred (though beginning to emerge). Most of the Chilean wines we see in America are produced by a handful of large companies; labels are few and brands are consistent. It’s simply hard to go wrong.
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Tags: blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, industry, Merlot, reds, Sauvignon, wine
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
Midi-Sauvignon Vin looks at the world-produced and very present in Languedoc-Roussillon region of adoption of this grape varietal aromas with very pronounced.
The first traces of its culture back to the 18th century. The Loire and the South-West are home. Today, its culture was exported beyond our borders. Australia, the United States (mainly California), but particularly New Zealand produces great wines made from Sauvignon in many areas.
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Tags: aromas, History, research, Sauvignon, scientific
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Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
California is the area of the United States located in the western hills of Sonoma County, most notably the Napa Valley and is a perfect microclimate for growing grapes.
Were the first Spanish missionaries who arrived in California, who led the first vines in order to get wine to celebrate the Eucharist.
Until the 70′s the quality of the strains of this state was not very remarkable, but from then until now, there has been an important industry commitment to quality and makes a great effort to produce the best wines.
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Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Cabernet Sauvignon wine is from the French region of Bordeaux, this wine is an area that takes a big boom from the eighteenth century and its wines are marketed and imitated around the world. Although its origin is French, this variety is grown today along the northern temperate and warm the world.
This wine is characterized by its consistency and longevity, and a number of features that give rise to strains, such as soil composition and climate. The germination of this variety is medium-late.
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Of these three varieties will be produced in volume in South Tyrol at the most and they are to shape the image of the region, especially in foreign markets. The picture that they give with the year 2009 can be seen. In all three, there is a wide selection of excellent wines, with Traminer is the domestic terms of points ahead. Lush, layered and complex fruit flavors and a long shelf life is characterized by predominantly from the south of the country (Upper Adige and the lowlands) derived wines. The local cooperatives from Tramin Kurtatsch and have the lead.
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Tags: blanc, grapes, pinot, Sauvignon, traminer
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Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Varietal:Cabernet Sauvignon
Appellation:Israel, Galilee
Style:Red
Price:$26
WOW Rating:90
Observes Jewish wine critic Glenn Verk, “This wine receives 18 months of aging in French oak, and though unfiltered and a bit cloudy, the earthy nose is elegant and complex, though maybe not bone dry.”
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Tags: Cabernet, Darryl Beeson's Review, Galilee, Israel, Sauvignon, Wine review, Yarden
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