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Carménère: The Other Red Meat Wine

I am a big fan of carménère, and really appreciate the way the fruit and savory flavors of a well done carménère pair with beef. Not just any beef, mind you. What comes to... read more

Other French Wine Regions

Posted by Colman Andrews, Editor

Champagne The most famous and romantic of all French wines, champagne is sparkling wine made from chardonnay, pinot noir, and pinot meunier grapes by the so-called méthode champenoise,... read more

Rhône Wine Regions

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Côte Rôtie The northernmost wine region of France's Rhône Valley, Côte Rôtie — literally "roasted hillside," a reference to its exposure to the... read more

Bordeaux Wine Regions

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Saint-Estèphe The northernmost winemaking commune in Bordeaux's Médoc region, known for its well-rounded, tannic, long-lived wines (one example, Château Montrose, is... read more

Hawkes Bay Located on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, Hawkes Bay is the country's oldest wine-growing region and its second largest. Though some chardonnay is produced, it is... read more

Australia Wine Regions

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Coonawarra A terra rossa (red clay) vineyard region on the so-called Limestone Coast of southeastern Australia, between Adelaide and Melbourne, Coonawarra is famous above all for its cabernet... read more

Other U.S. Wine Regions

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New York The second-largest wine-producing state in America, after California (way after California, with an annual output of around 27 million gallons, compared with California's 635 million),... read more

Washington Wine Regions

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Columbia Valley This large viticultural area, covering about 11 million acres with some 17,000 acres of vines, extends over a large part of central and southern Washington (and over the border... read more