Perhaps chenin blanc is the white grape that I like best. To the extent that you can actually have a favorite grape. There are so many that are good. But chenin blanc is unusually exciting and ...

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As the most versatile wine grape, chenin blanc closely follows riesling. Both grapes are prince as well as pauper, making great dry wines, dessert wines, pricey and elegant wines and cheap bulk wines.

Certain wine regions and particular types of grapes often get unfairly overlooked. That’s why I made a point recently of writing about several, outstanding Pinotage red wines from South Africa. This ...

The fifth annual international Drink Chenin Day takes place on June 15, 2018, and everyone is invited. A social media initiative combined with in-person events around the world, #DrinkChenin Day ...

The white wine grape, originally from France’s Loire Valley, was widely planted in California’s early wine-growing days, thanks to a reliably abundant, high-acid crop in almost any conditions. But ...

It was in front of their eyes the entire time, and finally they realized what they had. The “what” that we’re talking about is the chenin blanc grape variety, and the “they” are the winemakers of ...

Chenin blanc (shen-in-blahnk) is not held in high esteem by California wine drinkers, mostly out of fascination for the current darling of white wines – chardonnay. The other, more logical reason is ...

But French grapes are by no means to be ignored. Burgundy’s supposedly “lesser” white wine grape Aligoté, once awfully tart, ...

Wine is either sweet or dry, right? It’s a simple question, yet wine is rarely that simple. Chenin blanc, the grape we have been examining over the last month, typifies some of the complexities that ...