Our tasters: “Light in color, heavy with flavor. Soft, light, fresh citrus notes with a touch of salinity. Very quaffable.” The wine: The Bertrand folks call this blend of grenache noir and grenache ...
What’s this then? Grenache is a red grape variety, until 2000 the second-most planted variety in the world. It’s most commonly associated with France but actually believed to have originated in Spain ...
In terms of wine and grapes, the French word gris, or gray, means not red and not white — effectively pink, or rosé. For this unusual wine, the predominant grape is grenache gris, the pinkish-skinned ...
How often do you walk into a wine bar and order a grenache? Not often, I suspect, or at least not consciously. It’s one of those grapes, like sangiovese, that just isn’t particularly famous in its own ...
You most likely know grenache as the generally rich and fruity grape variety that is so readily relied upon as a blending partner in France’s southern Rhone wine region, among other parts of the world ...
Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. In a wine world increasingly dominated by big, easy international varieties - cabernet ...
Grenache is a wonderful grape, a favorite of mine actually. But it is something of an unsung hero. You don’t often see the name on the front label as few producers use it on its own. But some do and ...
Grenache (or Garnacha, as it is known in its homeland, Spain) is one of the most widely planted grapes in the world. Late-ripening, heat-loving, drought-tolerant and sturdy (its tenacious, structured ...
Grenache is one of the world’s great grapes, but as with the first mercenary to get taken down by rebel forces in a war film, somehow we forget all too easily about the contribution it makes. Grenache ...