IGP (Indication Géographique Protégée), is a quality category of French wine, posed between Vin de France and Appellation d’Origine Protegée (AOP). IGP replaced Vin de Pays back in 2009. The majority of French IGP wine comes from the wide region of South France, traditionally know as Languedoc-Roussillon, which stretches from Pyrenees Mountains and the Spanish […]
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The aging of red wines is a matter of serious concern for winemakers since a premium wine should have a complex and intense bouquet, a balance in the mouth as regards with fruit and acidity, together with velvety tannins and a long finish. In a freshly made red wine, there are usually plenty of tannins extracted
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Sangiovese is a red grape variety, the most popular one in Italy, dominantly planted in central Italy and particularly in Tuscany. Sangiovese flourishes in several regions of Tuscany, one of which is Chianti. The name Chianti, an Italian DOCG classification (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita), characterizes the wine that is produced within the Chianti
Nowadays, Carmenère is considered to be the most famous vine variety of Chile worldwide. However, Carmenère has its own unusual history, the history of an “immigrant” and not everyone knows that France was its birthplace. Once upon a time, a vine variety grew up far away from cosmopolitan and pulsating Santiago, in Bordeaux. It first
