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This is a rich, robust wine with plenty of ripe dark fruit and spice on the nose. Barrel ageing in 85% French and 15% American oak give the palate a lovely toasty finish and add structure and finesse. This is a full bodied wine which will be a great ...
An excellent value gift from popular New Zealand winery Oyster Bay. Hawkes Bay had the warmest season so far this millennium, which has produced a glorious concentration of fresh fruit flavours, elegance and balance. Lively aromas of summer berry fru...
One of our most popular wines, this Gift Pack is sure to impress. The Oyster Bay Estate takes great care in treating each batch of wine as individual. Cool fermentation and immediate bottling is completed to retain all the wonderful fruit aromas and ...
Tremendous depth of colour, with bold, powerful perfumes beginning to change from spiced berries and plums to a softer, more leathery note. On the palate it is full-bodied and chunky, with solid tannins supporting the dark, spiced fruit character wi...
This wine is made from grapes selected from vineyards ranging from 30 to 70 years of age. The mature vines provide small yields of intensely flavoured fruit, providing a solid basis for the extended ageing this style requires. A mellow ruby colour ti...
Black forest fruits and red cherry dominate the aromas, interwoven with subtle dried herb and cinnamon spice. Well ripened tannins and acidity frame a densely fruited and textured palate, full of lush pinot fruit wrapped in a whisper of barrel smoke....
The hallmark of the award winning Jackson Estate winery is an unstinting devotion to quality. Adopting traditional Burgundian winemaking techniques with no irrigation, Geoff Woollcombe and his team have produced this concentrated and powerful Pinot N...
Mount Difficulty is a boutique winery located in Bannockburn in Central Otago. The Bannockburn area is internationally recognized as one of the few places in the world where the petulant Pinot Noir variety has found a home outside Burgundy. Most of t...
An attractive ruby colour with youthful rim, the 2008 Nebbiolo has a lovely floral perfume on the nose, with spring flower aromas which are both delicate and intense and underpinned by red fruit and mineral notes. On the palate, it has the characte...
You can also search for wines on windeday.co.uk by searching wine grape variety. In this category you will find all of the best-known wines listed by wine gaspe variety.If you simply hover your mouse over the grape variety section a pop out list will appear which features the key varieties so you can go straight to your chosen style.
We start with Cabernet Franc, which is one of the most used of grape varieties across the world. Grown predominantly for blending with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot varietals where it has been used to produce the classic Bordeaux style since the end of the 18th Century. As a consequence of this grapes popularity you will discover a large number of wines from all of our featured retailers within this variety.
We move on to Cabernet Sauvignon, a heavier style than Cabernet Franc and probably the most widely known style from the red grape variety.
You can also choose from, Grenache grown widely in Spain, the south of France and California where the hot dry conditions suit this variety best.
Select also from examples of Nebbiolo, Sangiovese, Semillon, Tempranillo and Shiraz. With the huge strides forward that have been made in wine production over the centuries and the continuing experimentation and search for perfection, blending varieties is commonplace.
Each variety has it's particular characteristics and strengths as well as weaknesses so winemakers routinely blend varieties to comtrast and compliment each other in the finished wine. As well as single variety wines we carry many great examples of mixed variety wines on these pages. Some you will be familiar with - Merlot for example is very often blended with Cabernet sauvignon to add spice and character to a grape which can at times be a little dull.
Other blends are perhaps a little more unusual but well worth trying. What about a blend of tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon to produce a soft but full bodied wine full of fruit combining elegance and richness. Whether it's red, white or rose you'll find some very special single varietal and mixed varietal wines here
For a hugely entertaining look at our final two varieties: Merlot and Pinot Noir we would highly recommend the movie Sideways – a wine based road movie. Laugh and learn!
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