single varietal

However, some producers remained interested in making single varietal red wines.

Single Varietal Cider, where only one type of apple is used.

If a single varietal name is used, the wine must be made from a minimum of 85% of this variety.

To make each wine, individual lots are selected and combined to create 4 different types of wine all single varietal.

Their award winning chocolate bars use single origin and single varietal cocoa beans.

It is often made as a single varietal in the vin de pays of the Languedoc.

Since about 1998 Viognier is increasingly being used and is also appearing as a single varietal.

It is traditionally blended with Rotgipfler but is increasingly being sold as a single varietal wine.

The grape can distinguish itself as a single varietal wine or it can add acidity as a blending component.

Back also bottled South Africa's first single varietal Petite Sirah.

It is increasingly being used to make massive, brooding, single varietal wines that will age for several years - Pirramimma has championed this approach.

A single varietal, Roussanne, that is matured in an oak aging barrel, is also made by some estates.

Often making up as much as 90% of a blend, Tempranillo is less frequently bottled as a single varietal.

All single vineyard, single varietal wines, produced from low yielding, dry grown old vines which are hand pruned, hand picked.

It has attracted attention among winemakers in the New World, where it ripens more reliably and has been made into single varietal wine.

While it is most often used in blends, it is gaining some popularity as a single varietal and as icewine.

These days, the wine has come in to its own and is bottled as a single varietal alongside the other main grape of Herzegovina wine production, Blatina.

Wines in Slovenia have traditionally follow the Austrian preference of single varietal over blended wines but the production of blended wines are on the rise.

They produce a single varietal sparkling wine, Meslier Brut, and a Pinot Meslier blend.

Duval-Leroy have made a single varietal champagne, the Authentis Petit Meslier, which was criticised by Decanter for over-oaking.

In Kantza, a village east of Paiania, a single varietal style of Savatiano is made without the Aleppo pine resin found in Retsina.

American law requires that wine sold as being from a single varietal must be at least 75% composed of the grape in question, and within the European Union, the requirement is a minimum of 85%.

In Champagne, it is most often blended with Pinot noir and Pinot Meunier but is also used to produce single varietal blanc de blancs styles of sparkling wine.

Single varietal wines produced in the region include the Australian mainstays of Shiraz and Chardonnay as well as the more obscure Viognier, Pinot noir, Graciano and Tannat.

Even though cider topped with handfuls of ice cubes is not such the cool thing it was several years back, expect it to continue its upmarket growth especially with an emphasis on single varietal and single orchard ciders.