There are, right now, numerous Grenache wines waiting patiently on the shelves of your closest wine store.
Chapoutier Domaine Bila-Haut Blanc, a lively, medium bodied wine made mostly from Grenache Blanc and Grenache Gris.
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Nor has it escaped the notice of industrial-scale wineries that Grenache vines can sprout massive crops of grapes.
Grenache's ability to fill lots of bottles has undeniably made it a go-to grape for sketchy wines worldwide.
Plump, luscious, exotic and trailing a chequered reputation, the Grenache grape is the Lola Montez of vine fruits.
The next vintage, we took the 'Grenache' off, and the wine sold out.
The concept of delayed gratification is simply not part of Grenache's Mediterranean soul.
Theologicum"--a highly praised cooperative effort between three famous winemakers--"with 'Grenache' on the label, and it piled up in our warehouse.
Certainly not least among Grenache's PR problems is just that it isn't a grape from Bordeaux or (except surreptitiously) Burgundy.
Rubenesque, juicy and shot through with spicy perfume, great Grenache wines seem to explode from the glass right from the get-go.
It's one of several wines produced at the domaine owned by wine importer Dan Kravitz, who chose the domaine for its old-vine Grenache vineyard.
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But Mr. Kravitz was not allowed to produce a wine from his vineyard alone, as an all-Grenache wine is not permitted by law to be dubbed a Roussillon wine.
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Grenache still, to many Americans, has a hint of pinkish jug wine about it, and only a few brave souls on the West Coast, like Bonny Doon, Alban, Edmunds St.
And, because these aren't widely known blue chips, you'd have to assume that there isn't much of a secondary auction market for them--or for other stars in the Grenache constellation.
Not surprisingly, however, a Grenache vineyard that will produce dense, tongue-blackening wine when pruned back to yield 3 or 4 tons per acre makes pale, character-free, generic plonk at 10 or 12 tons per acre.
Americans who have rushed to embrace mediocre California Merlots in the hopes of finding a soft, juicy wine with aromatic fruit would seemingly mob a store for Grenache, but the American wines aren't there to introduce them to it.
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