Wine Types Descriptions and Information Wine Types Descriptions and Information There are hundreds of wine types in the world, each with its own flavors and styles. Most people know about the popular varieties of wine - chardonnay, cabernet and merlot. It's time to expand your knowledge! Read though over 125 wine descriptions to learn about all of the wine varieties, and learn which might appeal to your palate. If you're interested in a wine type that's not listed here, feel free write me for more information. A Airen Alsace, France Amarone, Italy Amontillado, Spain Apple Wine / Cider Aramon Armagnac, France Asti Spumanti, Italy B Baco Noir Balsamic Vinegar Banyuls, France Barbaresco, Italy Barbera, Italy Barolo, Italy Beaujolais, France Blueberry Wine Bordeaux, France Brandy (distilled wine) Brunello (Italy) Bull's Blood, Hungary Burgundy, France C Cabernet Franc Cabernet Sauvignon Cari? Carmenere Carmignano (Italy) Castel del Monte Catawba Cava, Spain Chablis, France Champagne, France Chancellor Chardonel Chardonnay Chartreuse, France Chateauneuf du Pape, France Chelois Chenin Blanc Chianti, Italy Cider Cinsault Concord Cognac, France Cote d'Or, France D Dattier Delaware E Eggnog - with Sherry Est! Est!! Est!!! F Fior D'Arancio Fruit and Berry Wines Fume Blanc G Gavi, Italy Gew?raminer Glogg, Sweden Grappa Grasevina Grenache Gr? Veltliner H Hermitage, France I Icewine J Jerez L Lambrusco, Italy Landot Noir Lemberger Liebfraumilch, Germany Loire, France M Macon, France Madeira, Portugal Malaga, Spain Malbec Marsala, Italy Marsanne Mead Medoc, France Mencia Meritage Merlot Meursault Montepulciano, Italy Monastrell Mourvedre Mulled Wine Muscadet, France Muscat / Moscato Muscadel N Nebbiolo Niagara Noiret Norton O Orange Muscat P Pear Wine Petit Sirah Petit Verdot Pinotage Pinot Blanc Pinot Gris/Grigio Pinot Meunier Pinot Noir Pisco Port, Portugal Primitivo Prosecco, Italy Q Qualit?wein, Germany R Recioto, Italy Rhone, France Riesling Rioja, Spain Rose Rosso di Montalcino, Italy Roussanne S Sake (rice based) Sancerre, France Sangiovese Sassicaia, Italy Sauternes, France Sangria (wine punch) Sauvignon Blanc Sekt, Germany Semillon Sherry, Spain Shiraz Silvaner Sirah Soave, Italy Steuben Syrah T Tannat Tempranillo Tokaji, Hungary Trebbiano V Valpolicella Verdeho Vernaccia di San Gimignano Vidal Vin Santo Viognier Viura Vouvray, France W Weissherbst White Zinfandel X Xinomavro Z Zinfandel, Red Zinfandel, White B Baco Noir Balsamic Vinegar Banyuls, France Barbaresco, Italy Barbera, Italy Barolo, Italy Beaujolais, France Blueberry Wine Bordeaux, France Brandy (distilled wine) Brunello (Italy) Bull's Blood, Hungary Burgundy, France C Cabernet Franc Cabernet Sauvignon Cari? Carmenere Carmignano (Italy) Castel del Monte Catawba Cava, Spain Chablis, France Champagne, France Chancellor Chardonel Chardonnay Chartreuse, France Chateauneuf du Pape, France Chelois Chenin Blanc Chianti, Italy Cider Cinsault Concord Cognac, France Cote d'Or, France D Dattier Delaware E Eggnog - with Sherry Est! Est!! Est!!! F Fior D'Arancio Fruit and Berry Wines Fume Blanc G Gavi, Italy Gew?raminer Glogg, Sweden Grappa Grasevina Grenache Gr? Veltliner H Hermitage, France I Icewine J Jerez L Lambrusco, Italy Landot Noir Lemberger Liebfraumilch, Germany Loire, France N Nebbiolo Niagara Noiret Norton O Orange Muscat P Pear Wine Petit Sirah Petit Verdot Pinotage Pinot Blanc Pinot Gris/Grigio Pinot Meunier Pinot Noir Pisco Port, Portugal Primitivo Prosecco, Italy Q Qualit?wein, Germany R Recioto, Italy Rhone, France Riesling Rioja, Spain Rose Rosso di Montalcino, Italy Roussanne S Sake (rice based) Sancerre, France Sangiovese Sassicaia, Italy Sauternes, France Sangria (wine punch) Sauvignon Blanc Sekt, Germany Semillon Sherry, Spain Shiraz Silvaner Sirah Soave, Italy Steuben Syrah T Tannat Tempranillo Tokaji, Hungary Trebbiano V Valpolicella Verdeho Vernaccia di San Gimignano Vidal Vin Santo Viognier Viura Vouvray, France W Weissherbst White Zinfandel X Xinomavro Z Zinfandel, Red Zinfandel, White All content written by Lisa Shea and copyright © 2011 Minerva WebWorks LLC. All rights reserved. You MUST GET WRITTEN PERMISSION to reprint or republish any of this material Lovely site design and logo created by Gardiner Design

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SteveO's California Wine Touring Guides Since 1994, I've gathered these pages as a California Winery guide with much information useful to the wine tourist in California.  While I do not personally run wine tours, I hope these guides will help you enjoy many hours of Wine Touring. There are wineries to enjoy in all of California, from Temecula in the south near San Diego to the Northern California Coast in Mendocino County to the Foothills of the Sierras. The most famous, of course, is the Napa Valley but there are wonderful wine producers throughout the state. As shown in Sideways, you can get excellent Pinot Noirs from Santa Barbara County. No matter the wine you like, you can find wonderful examples throughout California. My Introduction to the California Wine Producing Regions will introduce you to where I've broken up the regions, regional information and some maps. Along with winery information and winery links, I've started to add hotel and restaurant suggestions. I've also begun to add Sample Two Day Tours for different regions, starting with Napa Valley to give you some ideas for visits. Napa Valley - The Region pages plus additional hotel, restaurant and limo information pages. Sonoma County Central Coast - Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Paso Robles Mendocino & Lake Counties Sierra Foothills & Central Valley - Amador, El Dorado, Calaveras, Lodi Livermore Valley Santa Cruz Mountain, Santa Clara & Monterey Temecula, Ramona Valley & San Diego County Feedback/questions are welcome - SteveO - otruba@californiawineryguide.com - SteveO's Home Page - Sitemap © 1994-2011 - SteveO Guides

Wine Varieties | Wine Guides & Wine Poster Charts | TasteTour by Ronn Wiegand Featuring the World's Classic Wine Varieties Created by Ronn Wiegand, Master of Wine, Master Sommelier Beautifully illustrated, short wine varietal guides covering six of the world's finest wine varieties. Full set includes free deluxe slipcover! $12.95 6-PAGE FOLDOUT BOOKLET $74.95 SET OF 6 WINE GUIDES Each wine varietal guide is a complete reference to one wine variety, and includes: Learn More | How to Order Striking poster-size wine varietal charts of six of the world's finest wine varieties. Perfect for framing! $17.95 18 X 24-INCH POSTER $90.00 SET OF 6 WINE CHARTS Learn More | How to Order "Everyone selling or tasting wine should own the TasteTour wine guide collection. It is an essential tool." Kurt Fischer Vice President Food & Beverage, Westin Hotels & Resorts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TasteTour.com uses PayPal for secure online payments.     HOME | WINE GUIDES | WINE CHARTS | WINE NEWSLETTER | WINE CONSULTING | CONTACT US ©1997 - 2011, RONN WIEGAND, MASTER OF WINE, MASTER SOMMELIER. WEBSITE BY SITEOPEDIA WEB DESIGN + MARKETING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TasteTour.com uses PayPal for secure online payments. HOME | WINE GUIDES | WINE CHARTS | WINE NEWSLETTER | WINE CONSULTING | CONTACT US ©1997 - 2011, RONN WIEGAND, MASTER OF WINE, MASTER SOMMELIER. WEBSITE BY SITEOPEDIA WEB DESIGN + MARKETING    

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California Wine Country Travel Guide | Fodor's Travel Guides Life is good in the California Wine Country. Eating and, above all, drinking are cultivated as high arts. Have you been daydreaming about driving through vineyards, stopping here and there for a wine tasting or a picnic? Well, that fantasy is a common reality here. Napa and Sonoma know the tourism ropes well; their inns and hotels range from low-key to utterly luxurious, and generally maintain high standards. Most...read more Star chefs from around the world have come into the Wine Country's orbit, drawn by the area's phenomenal produce, artisanal foods, and wines. These days...read more Explore the best sights, entertainment, and shopping with our top choices and insider tips. Biking: Cycling is one of the best ways to see the Wine Country—the Russian River and Dry Creek valleys are particularly beautiful.... Read more Well more than 50 varieties of grapes are grown in the California Wine Country. Although you don't need to be on a first-name basis with them... Read more Napa Valley Mustard Festival, Feb.-Mar. When Napa is at its least crowded, and wild mustard blooms in between the vines, locals celebrate wine... Read more Spas in Napa and Sonoma have two special angles. First, there are the local mud baths and mineral-water sources, concentrated particularly around... Read more Like any activity, wine making and wine tasting have specialized vocabularies, and most of the terms are actually quite helpful, once you have... Read more The Regent Bal Harbour, Florida.Phenomenal designer shopping and super-luxe high-rise residences have... Read more Just in time for "crush" season---a shortlist of recommended inns and B&Bs in Napa, Sonoma, and the Russia Read more The Carneros wineries are so close to San Francisco you can leave the city after lunch, drop by two o Read more View more blog stories View more planning tips Check historic weather for your trip dates My husband, almost 5 year-old daughter and I spent a long weekend in the L.A. area this past weekend. We spent Friday and Satruday nights in Santa Monica. I lived here for a year about ten years ago, and Read more This was our third trip to San Francisco, and hopefully there will be many more since I still have a long list of things I want to see and do there. Read more View more trip reports I've got to get outta Dodge! Read more View more travel discussions Copyright © 2011 Fodor's Travel, a division of Random House, Inc.

Wine How-To Guide - Wall Street Journal Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher write "Tastings," the weekly wine column of The Wall Street Journal. They also are the authors of "Wine for Every Day and Every Occasion," "Love by the Glass: Tasting Notes from a Marriage" and "The Wall Street Journal Guide to Wine." A complete revision of that book, called "The New and Improved Wall Street Journal Guide to Wine," was published in September 2002. Ms. Gaiter and Mr. Brecher have been married since 1979. Ms. Gaiter was a national reporter and editor covering issues of race for the Journal from 1990 to 2000. Mr. Brecher was Page One Editor of the Journal from 1992 to 2000. They began writing "Tastings" in 1998 and became full-time wine columnists in 2000. Over the past decade, many people have come to believe that there is an objective truth about every wine. But the greatest wine experiences are deeply personal. In 2009, Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher rated a dozen wines Very Good or better that cost $10.99 or less. Here they are, hailing from Chile, Australia, France, the U.S. and more. The 2003 vintage of the Portuguese after-dinner wine makes a rich, earthy holiday present, say Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher.

Approach Guides Wine App for iPhone Review by Donna Hull on 2010/05/17 Tweet Drinking wine while traveling the world is a fun way to learn about a country and its culture. But how do you choose from a list of wines printed in another language with grapes or appellations that are unfamiliar to you? Baby boomers traveling to Italy and Spain now have a secret weapon ? Approach Guides Wine app for iPhone and iTouch (works with iPad too). Jennifer and David Raezer (who are also authors of the popular Approach Guides series of cultural travel guides) designed this handy app that downloads to your iPhone or iTouch. The database currently includes wine information for Italy and Spain, with plans to add Chile and Argentina soon. Baby boomers will especially appreciate that they don’t have to be connected to the internet to access the Approach Guides Wine information. But the beauty of the application is the strategy the Raezer’s have developed for choosing a wine. From the Home Screen, select grape variety, style, food pairing or region to begin your search (there are no specific bottle reviews). No matter where you start, you’ll eventually end up with a list of grape varieties. Each grape profile includes the wine style, tasting notes and information on the regions where the grape is grown. You’ll also discover food pairings plus vintage ratings, based upon the Raezer’s independent research. This video from Approach Guides Wine explains the process: I found the Approach Guides Wine app simple to use. A guide on the Home Screen provides directions for using the app plus an icon key. And any time an “i” appears in the upper right-hand corner of a page, more explanation is available. A feature also allows users to email tasting notes or share with friends on Facebook or Twitter (of course you’ll need an internet connection). As Approach Guides Wine adds more regions to the database, existing customers receive free incremental country releases. Next to be added?Chile and Argentina. Alan and I can’t wait to try out the Approach Guides Wine app on a trip to Northern Italy later this year. Of course it will also come in handy at our local Italian restaurant. Are you curious about the Approach Guides Wine app? Of course it’s available at the iPhone App Store ($3.99). But how about winning one? To help celebrate My Itchy Travel Feet?s 2nd anniversary, Approach Guides Wine? is offering a free download to one of our readers. Which will you be drinking, red or white? Enter the contest by leaving your comment at the end of this post. Please include your email address for contact purposes. Contest ends on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 11:00 p.m. Arizona Mountain Standard Time. Winner will be announced as soon as possible. Remember, according to our general contest rules, the winner must be a U.S. resident and respond within 48 hours of receiving the notification email; or we chose another winner. Disclosure: Approach Guides Wine provided me with a free download for review and as a contest prize. UPDATE: May 25, 2010, 11:01 p.m.. This contest has expired. As soon as the winner acknowledges receipt of my email, I?ll make the announcement. Tagged as: app, appellation, approach, baby boomer, Baby boomer travel, baby boomers, drink wine, guide wine, guides, iphone, italian wine, review, travel, vintage, wine, wine information [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Wine Reviews & News. Wine Reviews & News said: [Wine Reviews] Approach Guides Wine App for iPhone Review http://bit.ly/cF8RNd [...] A great idea for helping you navigate foreign wines! I was completely lost in France! What about Napa and Sonoma? I'm surprised those wine regions aren't high on the list… I'd love to see behind the scenes what regions they're planning to cover and the logic behind it. Glad they're tackling Argentina, though; many of my favorite affordable wines come from there! This sounds an excellent app. Wine in Europe is a foreign language of unknown regions, grapes and styles. This app is great and really helpful. Thanks for sharing. Italian wines are so good. Ahh the world of the grape! A truly remarkable fruit! Even better when fermented! Australia has some wonderful wines to choose from to! Wine and style just seem to go together, no? Many thanks for all of the hard work! Have you seen what Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, Queensland, Sydney and many more have teamed up to present? Very Stylish and the sun doesn't hurt either! http://bit.ly/cney0u A nice Pinot Grigio, thank you very much! I have trouble with foreign wines because I have no idea what their grapes taste like. I would really like an app that is like a personal wine picker outer. I say that I want a dry red with a lot of flavor that costs less than X per bottle. Or and that I'll be drinking it with chocolate, and it finds a few recommendations for me. Hi Melanie, Thanks for your comment! Napa and Sonoma are high on the list; however since we are only a three-person team, it is just a matter of bandwidth before we can get to them We launched our app with Italy and Spain for two reasons: 1) they both have many indigenous grapes that many people may shy away from ordering because they don't know anything about them, and 2) their wines are produced by tens of thousands of small producers (who may or may not have been reviewed) and we want to make sure that consumers never miss a great bottle of wine, just because it hasn't been reviewed. We will continue development of our app to include wines from Chile, Argentina, California, Australia, New Zealand, and of course, France. I hope that you find our app useful in choosing wines! Jennifer RaezerCo-FounderApproach Guides Wine Hi Mark,Thanks for your comment! I hope that our app is able to help you learn about some new grapes and regions and to try something new!Jennifer Hi Alisa,I agree – it can be really difficult to choose among foreign wines when you don't recognize the names or know what they will taste like. Our app will help you narrow down your choices, choose a wine quickly and confidently, and best of all, learn something in the process!Salute!Jennifer I will be drinking white wine. Great App. Red wine is full of antioxidants. [...] to Melanie Haiken of San Francisco, CA. She is the winner of the Approach Guides Wine app for iPhone and iTouch. 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