Cepage Overview Reds

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Abocado

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Spanish semi-dry wine. Should have flavors of black berries, earth and leather.

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Amarone

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Blueberry, plum and raisin, dried flowers, herbs and a touch of bacon. Powerful and luscious it needs lots of time to soften the tannins.

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Barbera

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The best Barberas offer cherry, spice and vanilla flavors. They are well-balanced, with medium body, soft tannins, and balanced acid. Traditionally a blending grape, it is being taken seriously as a single varietal in Italy, California, Australia, and more recently Argentina.

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Barbaresco

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The kid brother to Barolo, it has cherry, with some chocolate, anise, earth, and spice notes. Supposed to made from a single grape variety, the nebbiolo grape, it is sometimes blended to soften the body.

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Barolo

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Made from the Nebbiolo grape, this Italian red has a tar and roses scent. Look for flavors of black fruit, dried herb, cherry jam, and possibly licorice and smoke. It is powerfully full-bodied, extremely long-lived and among the greatest reds in the world.

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Beaujolais

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Both a wine and a French region producing wines with concentrated fruit, kirsch aromas and flavors.Light and easy to drink, Beaujolais Nouveau is made in November each year and should be drunk within weeks.

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Bordeaux

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These French blended wines have so many delightful flavors they are tough to classify. Look for a deep color with elegant notes of ripe black fruit, cassis, chocolate, smoke, and creamy vanilla oak. Usually need several years to soften.

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Brunello

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Spicy and mildly astringent, this is a strong deeply colored red which is fermented long and slowly. It is aged in Tuscan barrels for at least four years. Flavors of cranberry, cherries and oak.

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Burgundy, red

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Made from the Pinot Noir grape, Burgundies traditionally exhibit a cedary aroma, with black plum, cherry, earth, cocoa, rhubarb, pepper, black licorice, leather, and grippy tannins. Aging partially in new oak barrels adds additional depth and dimension.

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Carmenère

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From Chile, it has a bouquet of dark plum and toasty oak, with slight earthy, barnyardy note, and touch of carmel. It should be inky-black, with hints of vanilla, earthiness and spice.

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Cabernet Franc

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As a single grape wine, has berry, licorice, mint and cranberry flavors, with slight floral nose. May exhibit hints of raspberry and black cherry, edged with spice and pepper.

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Cabernet Sauvignon

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Wide variation of flavors, but look for black cherry, currants, bell peppers, cedar, and possibly anise. May also find aromas of cassis, cigar box, leather, meat, or mint.

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Carignan

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Known in southern France, Spain and now California, it's usually blended to produce Fitou, Minervois and Corbieres wines. In California it ends up in "jug" wines, but more recently blended into pleasant, southern Rhone style wines.

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Châteauneuf-de- Pape

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Extremely concentrated. Made from a variety of grapes, but usually includes Grenache, Mourvedre and Syrah. Look for a very deep-colored, almost black wine with flavors of licorice, roasted meat, black cherry and blackberry fruit. Also a truffle-like, earthy note, pepper, spice and slight perfumed quality.

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Chianti

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Black cherry, chocolate, espresso, cedar, sandalwood, black tea, toasty oak, dark plum, and possibly slight licorice or even soy notes. Consists of at least 70% sangiovese grapes to be legal.

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Cinsault

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A grape which by itself, makes a soft, fruity, but not particularly distinguished wine produced in France. When crossed with Pinot Noir, it is a hybrid producing Pinotage.

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Côte-Rôtie

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Côtes-du- Rhône

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Not really a wine varietal, but rather a region offering wines of distinct character. Look for a full bouquet with dark cherry, coffee and black pepper notes. May have bramble and earthy nose.

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Gamay

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The famous grape of Beaujolais, it is designed to be drunk young and has flavors of strawberry, cherry, banana

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Gigondas

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This French wine is usually thick and deeply saturated purple color with sweet ripe, jammy currant and cherry flavors with exotic spices and medium tannins.

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Grenache

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Hermitage

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Lambrusco

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A traditionally sweetish, bubbly wine made from the grape of the same name. It is very different in its native Italy where it is low in tannin, but dry, high in acidity and full of strawberry flavors. Great with salami and prosciutto.

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Lemberger

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Soft, rustic, juicy and grapey, it is most popularly used in wines from the Pacific Northwest. Serve slightly chilled during a summer picnic.

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Malbec

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Usually a blended grape used in Bordeaux. Single varietals are now popular in Argentina and California. It can impart flavors of mint and chocolate, as well as cherry, pepper and spice.

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Meritage, red

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California's version of Bordeaux-style wine. Blackberry, bell pepper, dill, mint, and oregano. Some smoky, creamy, vanilla notes

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Merlot

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Montepulciano

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Montiano

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Mourvedre

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Nebbiolo

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Petit Verdot

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Petite Syrah

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Pinot Noir

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Port

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Primitivo

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Rioja

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Sangiovese

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Shiraz

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Spanna

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Tempranillo

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Valpolicelli

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Zinfandel

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