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WEBCorbières co-operation. For tasting notes and background on each producer, see Douzens – centre... 28 Sep 2024. Jancis Robinson. Wine knowledge platform by Jancis Robinson. From beginners to experts, learn more about wine with our articles, tasting notes, and more.
Côtes du Roussillon | JancisRobinson.com
WEBCôtes du Roussillon. Roussillon is often appended to the Languedoc, as in Languedoc-Roussillon, but has a quite distinct character of its own, in landscape, in ethnic roots (Roussillon still regards itself as part of Catalonia across the border in Spain), and in wine styles. Whereas the Languedoc is almost entirely dependent on vine-growing ...
Cabernet Sauvignon | JancisRobinson.com
WEBThe progeny of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc, is the world's most famous red wine grape, and most planted of any colour.The 'chocolate' to Chardonnay's 'vanilla', Cabernet is much more positively flavoured than Chardonnay, and ripens much later, so tends to be planted in rather warmer areas. The great distinction of the wine it produces is that it has a very powerful and recognisable ...
Wine vintages | JancisRobinson.com
WEBGrowing seasons vary enormously from year to year. Here's your free guide to the most relevant vintages in the most significant regions. We think these brief descriptions are more useful than a numerical score.
Merlot wine grapes | JancisRobinson.com
WEBMerlot conventionally makes lush, plummy, velvety wine that can soften Cabernet's more austere frame and, usefully, matures much faster. Very much a wine of the times, it enjoyed enormous popularity in the United States in the 1990s and early 2000s – until usurped by Pinot Noir. Merlot's homeland is Bordeaux where it is the most important ...
Chablis wine region | JancisRobinson.com
WEBBurgundy's white wine outpost is one of France's most northern and it is hardly surprising therefore that the wines are naturally relatively sinewy, high in acidity and steely rather than luscious and oaky. This is an archetypally refreshing, long-lived style of white wine which very few wine regions, possibly none other than Chablis, can produce.
Pinot Grigio | JancisRobinson.com
WEBThis white-wine-producing mutation of Pinot Noir is enjoying a wave of popularity perhaps greater than it has ever known, and certainly on a wider geographical scale, even if it is relatively rarely known by its true French name Pinot Gris. Until recently Pinot Gris was probably known mainly in Alsace (as Tokay d'Alsace), northern Italy (as Pinot Grigio) and in Germany (as Grauburgunder or ...
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Cabernet Franc | JancisRobinson.com
WEBIn 1997 it was shown by pioneers of applying DNA analysis to grapevines that Cabernet Sauvignon is the progeny of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc, so in fact Cabernet Franc, whose origins seem to lie in Basque country in the western Pyrenees, must predate Cabernet Sauvignon by quite a while.As a vine and a wine, Cabernet Franc is more ...
Alsace wine region | JancisRobinson.com
WEBCrémant d'Alsace is the region's dry sparkling white wine, made like champagne. It can be very refreshing and can age for a few years, but is more notable for its youthful crispness than for great substance. One of Alsace's great attractions for the gastronomically inclined, other than the wines and the enormous number of Michelin-starred ...