4 thoughts on “Grapes long gone from Bordeaux blends”
This article about Bordeaux blends was highly insightful considering the vast progress grape growing has made throughout history in order to provide the highest quality of wine. Blends are an interesting aspect of wine considering some blends are composed of two high quality grape variations. I think it is important to understand the terminology and synonyms of grapes in order to understand a wine’s body and make further identifications towards certain familiar features and characteristics the blends are composed of.
I found this article to be very interesting because I did not realize that some types of wine can become endangered because of animal and plant types. Moreover, these types are “being replaced by vinifera vines, clones, and hybrids”. Vinifera vines, the common grape vine are a species of flowering plant, native to the Mediterranean region, Central Europe, and southwestern Asia, from Morocco and Portugal north to southern Germany and east to northern Iran.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis_vinifera).
The most interesting takeaway from this article is the fact that so many grapes have been removed or not in use from the Bordeaux blend. It is amazing that so many will have to get used to the flavor change from some of their favorite wines.
I never realized the evolution of the Bordeaux blend. I never really thought about how wine many years ago has evolved into what it has today from process of elimination and changing of climates and things of that nature. I would be interested to try a Bordeaux from the beginning of the wine industry in France and compare it to today’s Bordeaux.
This article about Bordeaux blends was highly insightful considering the vast progress grape growing has made throughout history in order to provide the highest quality of wine. Blends are an interesting aspect of wine considering some blends are composed of two high quality grape variations. I think it is important to understand the terminology and synonyms of grapes in order to understand a wine’s body and make further identifications towards certain familiar features and characteristics the blends are composed of.
I found this article to be very interesting because I did not realize that some types of wine can become endangered because of animal and plant types. Moreover, these types are “being replaced by vinifera vines, clones, and hybrids”. Vinifera vines, the common grape vine are a species of flowering plant, native to the Mediterranean region, Central Europe, and southwestern Asia, from Morocco and Portugal north to southern Germany and east to northern Iran.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis_vinifera).
The most interesting takeaway from this article is the fact that so many grapes have been removed or not in use from the Bordeaux blend. It is amazing that so many will have to get used to the flavor change from some of their favorite wines.
I never realized the evolution of the Bordeaux blend. I never really thought about how wine many years ago has evolved into what it has today from process of elimination and changing of climates and things of that nature. I would be interested to try a Bordeaux from the beginning of the wine industry in France and compare it to today’s Bordeaux.