Grape Hybrids - French Hybrids
At some point in each person's wine drinking lifetime, talk will turn from the more traditional grapes such as Chardonnay and Zinfandel. Someone will mention a Baco Noir as going wonderfully with BBQ.
Grape Growing Throughout The Seasons
The following is a Macromedia Flash slideshow demonstrating the progression of the grapevine throughout the seasons.
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GRAPEY
Content has simple flavors and aromas reminiscent of a certain type of fresh wine or table grape. Used by some as adjective alternate for "foxy".
Grape Varieties and Blending
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Red Grape Varieties
Cabernet Sauvignon
Perhaps the noblest of them all, Cabernet Sauvignon makes big, dense, structured red wines capable of long aging.
Grape Varieties A to Z
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This grape variety seems to have originated in the Burgundy area of Eastern France, although it was also found in early vineyards in the Champagne area of North-Eastern France.
Grape widely grown and successful in South Africa. Reportedly also cultivated in nearby Zimbabwe. Derived from the crossing of a Pinot Noir clone and Cinsaut. Used to make a popular, hearty red wine that ages well - (and often requires it).
The favored grape of the Anjou region of France and, although naturally a hard, acidic grape slow to mature, is made into fine sweet wines that age well for a least ten years in the bottle. In the U.S.
A compound present in all grapes and an essential component of wine that preserves it, enlivens and shapes its flavors and helps prolong its aftertaste. There are four major kinds of acids -- tartaric, malic, lactic and citric--found in wine.
Grape seed oil
From EncycloWine
Grape seed oil is a vegetable oil pressed from the seeds of various varieties of Vitis vinifera grapes, an abundant by-product of winemaking.
Grape Harvesting Options
Traditional hand-harvesting and mechanical harvesting are the two routes that a winery can take to get the grapes off the vine and ready for crush.
Grape Varieties
From Aghiorghitiko to Zinfandel, find out all you need to know about vitis vinifera with decanter.com's A to Z of grape varieties
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THE WINEGRAPE GLOSSARY
[Used with permission by Anthony J. Hawkins]
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Grapes are the largest fruit crop on earth2. The grapevine prefers the temperate climate in which it evolved, with warm, dry summers and mild winters. Winters of sustained cold kill grapevines. High humidity promotes vine disease.
Grape jelly to fine wine
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Grape Variety Planting Evaluations for New York State
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GRAPEFRUITY
Grapefruit flavours are characteristic of cool-climate Chardonnays. See citrusy above.
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Grape Machine Harvesting and Wine Quality
If I were to ask you what was probably the most important factor that has helped make high quality Australian wine so competitively priced in the world market. What would you say? Winery technology perhaps?
The grapes of Pinot Noir are tiny and very tight around the stem. The juice is sweet uncolored. It is the colored component of the skin which dissolving in contact with the juice gives the wine its glistening colour. It brings summer fruit aromas.
What grapes make red, white or blush wines? The answer may not be what you expect.
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Common Grapes Guide
Vitis vinifera is the classic family of wine grapes and includes such renowned varietals as Zinfandel and Chardonnay. The vines originated in what's now southwestern Russia. In the United States, v.
Grape varieties should be planted in micro-climates that maximize their potential - e.g.
A fine Bordeaux need not list the grapes in the blend. California wines usually name a varietal, but many fine California wines do not. Often the name of the vineyard is enough to ensure quality.
Grapes and Regulations
Lest we forget, it's not all Riesling and Grüner Veltliner, not all dry white or sweet; there's much more to Austrian wine than this simple introduction has so far suggested.
Grape-variety :
Word used to indicate the variety of the vine plant (Pinot, Riesling, etc....) The choice of the grape-variety or varieties is chief to the quality of the wine, ...
Grapes in French Champagne
Three grape varieties are used in making French Champagne: Pinot Meunier, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
Grape Variety - In the mood for red or white? Start with the grape variety. If the variety is on the label, the wine must contain at least 75% of the named grape, though many wineries use 100%
Name of the Winery or brand name.
Grapey: Characterized by simple flavors and aromas associated with fresh table grapes; distinct from the more complex fruit flavors (currant, black cherry, fig or apricot) found in fine wines.
Grapey
Tasting term referring to flavours and aromas reminiscent of a certain type of fresh wine or grape.
Grassy
Tasting term applying to a slight vegetal undertone.
Grapey
Quite rare flavor of the grape itself in wine. Most common with Muscat, Beaujolais, Gewürztraminer and Riesling
Green
Unripe, or tart, not necessarily an unattractive taste in a light wine ...
Grape Varieties
GRAPE VARIETY 'HANDBOOK'
We have endeavoured to produce as concise and accurate a guide as we can but if you would like to contribute - or disagree - do not hesitate to Email us.
Grape variety
A particular type of grape, also called a "varietal.".
Green
The high acid taste of wines made from unripe grapes.
Grapey: Describes simple flavours and aromas associated with fresh table grapes.
Green: Tasting of un-ripe fruit. Not necessarily a bad thing, especially in a Riesling.
Heady: Used to describe the smell of a wine high in alcohol.
Grape juice - The free-run or pressed juice from grapes. Unfermented grape juice is known as "must." ...
Grapefruit: Just like the fruit; most commonly found in Sauvignon Blanc, also commonplace in Gewurztraminer.
Grassy: Walk through your lawn after cutting the grass, and you'll never mistake this aroma, often found in Sauvignon Blanc.
Grapey
Denotes the simple flavours and aromas of fresh table grapes, as opposed to the more complex fruit flavours (such as currant, black cherry, fig and apricot) found in fine wines.
Grape. A vine fruit, and the only one from which experts accept real wine can be made. There are thousands of varieties of grapes, some for eating and others for wine production.
Grapey: similar to fresh, also applied to wines which smell and taste like fresh-picked grapes, such as Asti or Lambrusco.
Grassy: Sauvignon blanc-based wines remind many tasters of grass.
Grape Type: The type of grape from the vitus vinefera group will have a large impact on the quality and taste of the wine.
WINEGRAPE GLOSSARY
by Anthony J. Hawkins
CLASSIC WINE GRAPE VARIETIES
BLAUBURGUNDER:
Clone of Pinot Noir widely grown in Germany and Austria. Also known as Spatburgunder in Austria.
Black Grapes
Wine grapes that have a reddish or blue pigmentation in their skins. These grapes are used to make red wines.
[Greengrape]
Secret squirrel white variety it quietly stored piles of flavour over time - ripe hay flavoured, tinged with savoury and citrus, richly textured at best. Stunning sweeties, impressive dry whites.
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Wine grape varieties are variously evaluated according to a wide range of descriptors which draw comparisons with other, non-grape flavors and aromas.
From Grape to Glass...
These simple guidelines will help you get the best from every bottle by outlining a few of the basic techniques to storing, serving & tasting wine.
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Grapes were then affected by the so called "noble mold" Botrytis Cinerea which altered both the aspect and the organoleptic qualities.
Grapey
Surprisingly, since wine is made from grapes, this is not necessarily a positive term. It implies a strong-flavored, one-dimensional wine without the subtlety or character that shows as complex aroma and flavor.
Grapes with red pulp and skins, as opposed to red grapes which have red skins but a colourless pulp.
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Grape VarietiesGeorgian Traditional Winemaking
Wine of 'Kvevri'
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Grape Varieties:
From Chardonnay to Merlot to Zweigelt
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Grapevine Clone Collections (De)
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Grape skins are normally covered with bacteria, molds, and yeast. The wild yeasts such as Pichia, Kloeckera, and Torulopsis are often more numerous than the wine yeast Saccharomyces.
Grapevines cannot reproduce reliably from seed. To cultivate a particular grape variety, grafting (a plant version of cloning) is used.
Wine has so many organic chemical compounds it is considered more complex than blood serum.
Grape Variety. Type of grape, such as Chardonnay or Merlot.
Harmonious. Referring to a pleasant and graceful balance of components in a wine.
Intense. Used to describe wines that express their character powerfully.
Grape Tannin
Tannins are found primarily in the stems, skins and seeds of grapes, which are removed from white grapes before fermentation.
Grape responsible for the long-lived, fine red wines of the Piedmont region of Italy.
A grape variety used in Madeira. Increasingly it is used to indicate a medium sweet style of Madeira.
Burgundy
One of the most important wine regions in France. The red grape is Pinot Noir and the white grape is chiefly Chardonnay.
The grapes in this wine are Garnacha (35%), Tempranillo (30%), Syrah (25%), and Cabernet Sauvignon (10%) - and all can be perceived on the nose, which is vibrant, open, and full of ripe black and red fruits, earth, tar, tobacco, and vanilla.
All grapes, as all wines, grown within any certain appellation are not necessarily superb; neither are they necessarily plonk.
 See also: Wine, Region, Aroma, White, Red
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