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Grape Varieties
Roussanne 🥂  * Photo by Carlos the Great on Wikimedia Commons * Roussanne (rooh-sahn) is native to the Rhône Valley in Southern France. Experts first wrote about it in the late 1700s in the Hermitage regio...
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Shades of Blue Riesling ($11.99)  Shades of Blue Riesling is a white wine made by a family-owned winery in Germany. The grapes grow on steep river slopes where the soil is composed of slate and ...
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Grape Varieties
Riesling 🥂  * Photo by Kmtextor on Wikimedia Commons * Riesling (reese-ling) is a white wine grape that originated along the Rhine River in Germany, with records dating back to 1435. It was originally grown...
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The Seeker Riesling ($14.99)  The Riesling grapes for this “The Seeker” wine were discovered by a husband and wife team in the famed Mosel Valley in Germany. This region features steep vineyard sites wi...
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Grape Varieties
Picpoul 🥂  * Photo by Marianne Casamance on Wikimedia Commons * The ancient Picpoul wine grape originates in France’s Languedoc region, with records dating back to the 1300s. Its name translates to “lip-...
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2018 Ridge Three Valleys Sonoma County ($30)  Ridge Vineyards was founded in 1959 when four Stanford Research Institute engineers—David Bennion, Charles Rosen, Hewitt Crane, and Howard Zeidler—purch...
Read more →Pinotage 🍷 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="960"][](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ripatella_4644.jpg) Photo by Wolfgang Lendl on Wikimedia Commons [/caption] Pinotage is a relatively young grape variety with a fascinating bac...
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2025 Craggy Range Pinot Noir ($32.99)  Established in 1998, Craggy Range is a family-owned estate that revolutionized New Zealand wine by matching specific grapes to unique terroirs. This 2025...
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Grape Varieties
Pinot Noir 🍷  * Photo by Ursula Brühl, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI) on Wikimedia Commons * Last time we looked at the Pinot Noir grape and the various countries where it is grown. Now, let’s look at two s...
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Bezel Pinot Noir ($29.99) This Pinot Noir is part of the “A Tour of Wine Grapes” series. Bezel Wines is a fresh wine adventure from the well-known Cakebread Family of wines. Since 1973, they’ve been making wine in Napa Valley at Cakebread Cellars ...
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