Field Blend

Field Blend
A field blend is the process of making wine from different grapes varieties within a single vineyard. This practice was once widely applied in Italy and elsewhere, but is losing popularity.
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Field Blend: When a vineyard is planted to several different varieties and the grapes are harvested together to produce a single wine, the wine is called a field blend.

FIELD BLEND: The name applied to a wine that comes from a vineyard that is planted to several different varieties and the grapes are harvested together to produce a single wine.

Monaco - a field blend
Monteregio di Massa Marittima - alone or in blends
Montescudaio - blend in ...

Field Blend: The practice of planting a vineyard with several grape varieties which are harvested together and all contribute to a common wine. Similarly, the mixing of grapes before the crush to constitute a field blend must.

From 1882, the phylloxera epidemic hit Hungary hard, with the traditional field blends of Eger and the many grapes of Tokaj being replaced with monocultures, often of Blaufränkisch (Kékfrankos) and the Bordeaux varieties in red wine districts, ...

Italian immigrants from Tuscany probably introduced the Sangiovese grape to California in the late 1800s, possibly at the Segheshio Family's "Chianti Station," near Geyserville. It is one of several varietal components of the field blend in many old ...

See also: Wine, Blend, Grape, White, Red