Learning about grape varieties is a great foundation to expanding your wine knowledge and learning which wine styles you'll love. Our Jiu Bole is here to help you discover more about the flavour profiles, regions and history of the world's best-loved grape varieties, from those used to make red wine, white wine, rosé and sparkling wine, along with gems from lesser-known regions.
Grapes are popular fruits, and many think they know all about them. But do we know all about grapes? Maybe not! There are near 8,000 varieties of grapes and 60 grape species found worldwide. These fruits have been around for much longer, unlike many hybrid fruits present in the market. We have picked the top 5 types of grapes to choose your favorite out of those in this article.
Grapes are a favorite for fruits lovers worldwide as they are bite-sized, sweet, and juicy. These tasty fruits are used differently than others and come in an abundance of colors and flavors. Let us go through this article for the best grape varieties present worldwide.
Cabernet Sauvignon Grape
World-renowned and well-travelled, cabernet sauvignon wines makes some of the world's finest red wines, working either on its own, or blended with other varieties.
While many grape varieties are known for their friendly fruit aromas, cabernet sauvignon's success as a fine wine lies in its subtleties: secondary, complex flavours that have the potential to develop deliciously in bottle over time. For this reason, cabernet is often seen as quite a 'serious' red wine designed for cellaring and keeping for many years. However, you can certainly find younger, fruitier styles to help you explore the flavours of this iconic grape.
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Helois Cabernet Sauvignon : Crystal clear ruby red colour,rich fruit aromas. Chocolate aromas and leather flavors are subtly integrated. Balanced body,soft tannins, smooth on the palate and long finish. It tastes better with red meat, vegetables,and meat pies.
La Casa Cabernet Sauvignon ：The wine is in deep ruby color with distinct fruit aroma, such as dark fruits, chocolate scents, well-balanced tannins, with a smooth tastes and lingering finish. 100% Cab Sav grapes ; Produced in Spain's most famous Valencia region.
Sangiovese Grape
Sangiovese has been grown in central Italy for generations, though recent grapevine research suggests the variety is not as ancient as once thought. The quality of Sangiovese wine can be notoriously variable. But, in the 1980s, drastically improved winemaking techniques saw a significant shift toward more quality-oriented releases.
At the dawn of the 21st Century, Sangiovese equated to roughly one in every ten vines on the Italian peninsula. Partly due to clonal variation it has many synonyms in its native land (see below).
Sangiovese is generally prized for its acid structure, firm tannins, savory characters and aromas of dark cherries.
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Pregio Sangiovese : The wine has a deep and elegant deep red color. It's fruity with sweet aroma of raisins . Full-bodied, the palate is rich and sweet. It tastes better with Chinese dishes and spicy dishes.
B.IO Romagna Doc Sangiovese：Ruby color. Fragrance of violets, wild cherry and a slightly spicy note. Moderate structure. Silky tannins. Better with beef, pizza, moderately aged cheese and preserved meats.
Merlot Grape
Merlot is characterised by its soft texture and easy, fruit-forward character ? think ripe plums, summer fruits and touches of vanilla and spice. Brilliantly versatile, it's the grape behind lots of good-value anyday reds as well as some of the most expensive wines in the whole world. On its own, it produces juicy, soft, plump reds, but also plays an important role in blends, especially with cabernet sauvignon; here merlot's friendly, fruity flavour counterbalances cabernet's more obvious tannins and structure.
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Keeva Select Merlot : Deep red colour with violet heighlight. It has an intense nose of blackberry and dry leaves with a touch of spice. There is a smooth mouth feel, medium body and it is perfectly balanced. The merlot also works really well being colder than you would typically serve a red wine.
La Casa Merlot : The wine shows a deep intriguing violet red color. Nose is rich and fruity, with intense red berry aromas, peppery notes, and a hint of oak, with hints of cocoa and caramel on the finish. It has a unique flavor with rich texture. The wine is well balanced with soft tannins and a silky, brocade finish.
Pinot Noir Grape
Pinot noir is arguably the most charismatic of all grape varieties, and without doubt the hardest to get right. When it works, though, it's sublime. No other grape has the same power of seduction, from its naturally delicate colour to the charming raspberry and cherry notes of a young pinot noir, through to the more gamey aromas that appear with age.
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Paul Thevenin Pinot Noir : Pinot Noir is almost always the grape of choice in Burgundy. These reds are significantly less fruit-forward than American varietals in Burgundy it’s all about the terroir, which can vary widely within the region. Vivid aromas of ripe wild strawberry, tangy black cherry, cranberry, fleshy and delicious fruit flavors are supported by grippy tannins. Juicy acidity rounds out this wine of elegance, precision, tension, and finesse.
Buxy Cote Chalonnaise Pinot Noir Red : This wine is made exclusively from the Pinot Noir grape.The grapevines are situated between Buxy and Saint Gengoux le National and are generally grown midway up the hillside. The soil is very shallow and ventilated. The heavily pebbled earth is ideal for the Pinot Noir.These grapes are grown from calcareous soil with high limestone content on the Côte Chalonnaise. The slopes are gentle and face towards the east and southeast.
Syrah Grape
Syrah, or shiraz as it's known in the New World, is considered to be one of the great noble black grape varieties, because it can produce such deliciously dark, full-bodied and age-worthy wines.
Expect rich, brooding flavours of blackberry, black plums and blackcurrant, with spicy, coffee, leathery and liquorice notes in hotter regions and gamey, truffle notes developing with a bit of age.
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Kopu Hawkes Bay Syrah : Pristine and beautifully lifted, showing Black Doris plum, blueberry, floral and subtle spice aromas on the nose, combined with a soothing palate deliverring medium-full-bodied weight and silky flow.
Leale Syrah : It's meaty, bits of black pepper, dark fruits, blackberry, blueberry, chocolate and herbs.
These are some grape varieties that we share with you today, and other grape varieties that we will continue to update for you in the next post.
