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Behind the Cork™ Reviews
Alta Vista was founded by Count Patrick d’Aulan, heir of more than 250 years of winemaking tradition. With an enterprising spirit, he arrived in Argentina in the 1990s looking for the best regions of Los Andes. The winery is located in Chacras de Co...
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Mourvèdre & Monastrell🍷 Mourvèdre is a thick-skinned, late-ripening red wine grape native to Spain, where it is known as Monastrell. Though it originated on the Iberian Peninsula, it has also found a famous secondary home along France’s Mediterranea...
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Behind the Cork™ Reviews
The Vitis Ridge winery was originally founded and operates as an equal four-way partnership between two couples: Chris and Sharon Deckelmann, and Bruce and Sally Eich.. What started as a hobby in the garage over 20 years ago has evolved into one of ...
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Nebbiolo 🍷 Nebbiolo (neb-ee-oh-low) is one of Italy’s top red wine grapes, most famous for its role in the Piedmont (pyeh-MON-teh) region. Nebbiolo is ancient royalty. The first written record of the grape dates all the way back to 1268 in a docume...
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Behind the Cork™ Reviews
Casa Santos Lima is a multi-generational, family-owned winery that stands as one of Portugal’s most prolific and highly decorated wine producers. Based at its primary estate, Quinta da Boavista in Alenquer (just north of Lisbon), it has evolved from ...
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Petit Verdot 🍷  * Image by Urlula Brühl on Wikimedia Commons * If you’ve ever had a Bordeaux blend, you’ve probably tasted Petit Verdot—even if you didn’t realize it. This bold, dark grape, long known...
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Behind the Cork™ Reviews
Bodegas Faustino Rivero Ulecia is part of a five-generation winemaking family that started back in 1899. The winery was founded in 1899 by Olegario Rivero. It operated locally for decades selling bulk wine. Then, in the 1940s, the winery, known as...
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Grape Varieties
Petite Sirah 🍷  * Image Courtesy of Noble Roots Nursery * Petite Sirah (peh-teet-sear-ah) was created by French botanist Dr. François Durif in the mid-1860s in an attempt to develop a vine resistant ...
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