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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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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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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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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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