Cabernet Sauvignon is one of the most widely planted and beloved grape varieties in the world ... Grenache Noir) but in Spain and other Spanish-speaking wine-producing countries, it's known ...

Grapes used for this fortified wine are the fragrant Touriga Nacional ... Alentejo is in the south-central part of Portugal, ...

Bring on the seafood. $17 Back in the Old World — and vineyards don’t get much older than those from Portugal — countless indigenous varietals and rich wine making traditions are the norm.

When it comes to white varietal wines, I feel Spain has a much better quality-depth chart than even France or Italy. France has the undisputed “champion-of-champions” white varietal in Chardonnay that ...

There are many other wonderful white wines, sparkling wines and dessert wines from this country wedged between France and Portugal ... Spain, plus information about the most popular wine grapes ...

Some experts thought vines were first cultivated in Iberia (primarily Portugal and Spain ... into different wine grapes in the Balkans, Italy, France and Spain. But if people in the Caucasus ...

With over 400 grape varieties, Spanish wine is about much more than Tempranillo. Rioja has long been Spain’s most well-known and prestigious wine region, and it’s one of only two regions to be ...

California seems to be setting the standards in the wine industry ... of experimental grape varieties were based on grape varietals found in Southwest France, Northern Spain, and in Italy.

Relatively few Americans visit Galicia, the Northwest corner of Spain’s Atlantic ... Treixadura and Espadeiro grapes are grown and vinified into remarkable wines whose minerality, sunny ...

The region and the grapes: Vinho verde is Portugal’s largest demarcated ... it resembles some of the entrancing white wines of northwestern Spain. Bring on the shellfish for this beauty.