Croatia argues that Teran, or Terrano in Italian, is a generic grape variety and cannot be protected.
Visitors to the site can sort by type, grape variety, tasting notes, professional ratings, price, brand and even alcohol content.
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Scores are awarded for the correct identification of the wine's predominant grape variety, country of origin, viticultural region, subdistrict and vintage.
While the white grape variety Chenin Blanc still remains the most planted in South Africa, its percentage of vineyard area has fallen in the past 10 years.
Wine DNA. Apparently, it's not unknown for underhand vintners to pass off one grape variety as another, and because wine is such a complex beast, how would we ever know?
It is still not clear exactly which grape variety is growing on Robben Island, but Mr Jonker believes the quality will be high, and is now trying to research the world of charity auctions.
Every grape variety has two parents.
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Outside of France, the grape variety finds a home in Austria, Australia and California and Oregon in the U.S., as well as in the San Antonio Valley in Chile, where it produces an intense pungent aroma with notes of grapefruit and ginger.
While its 2009 Riesling has the distinct whiff of chalk, the wine is an age away in terms of taste and grape variety from the thrilling reds made from Syrah that for more than 200 years sold around the world, helping shape the family business: M.
Fortunately, this is not a problem in grape detection since all the plants belonging to a particular variety of grapevine are actually one individual, genetically speaking.
All 24 sites could be accounted for if the first Cabernet Sauvignon vine was a hybrid between Cabernet Franc (another red variety from Bordeaux) and Sauvignon Blanc (a white grape grown widely in western France).
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