Grapes

Wine-Searcher's online encyclopedia of wine grape varieties

Featured Grapes

Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon is the world's most famous red wine grape. From its origins in Bordeaux, the variety has spread to every corner of the wine world.

Bordeaux Blend Red

A Bordeaux Blend, at its most basic, is any combination of those grape varieties typically used to make the red wines of Bordeaux. The phrase, which seems to have originated with British wine merchants in the 19th Century, relates as much to wines made from the blend as to the grape variety combination itself

Pinot Noir

The dominant red wine grape of Burgundy, Pinot Noir is now adopted and adored in wine regions all over the world. It causes more discussion and dispute than any other grape, most of which centers around finding and describing the variety's "true" expression

Sangiovese

Sangiovese is the most planted variety in Italy, the foundation stone for the wines of Chianti, and the only grape used for Brunello di Montalcino.

Riesling

Riesling is – if the majority of top wine critics are to be believed – the world's finest white-wine grape. This claim may seem at odds with the sea of artificially sweetened, low-quality wine

Chardonnay

Chardonnay is arguably the most famous and successful of all white wine grapes, found in vineyards all over the world, from Beaune and Bendigo to Napa and Neuquén

Nebbiolo

Nebbiolo – the grape behind Barolo and Barbaresco – is famous for its distinctive scent, its aggressive tannins, and its evocative, brick red color Within just a few years of vintage, Nebbiolo wines begin fading to a beautiful brick orange

Sauvignon Blanc

Sauvignon Blanc is a white-wine grape originally from western France, but now grown all over the world. While the variety may be most readily associated with the Loire Valley (and more recently Marlborough, New Zealand), it is more likely to have originated from the Loire.

Grapes A-Z

A cluster of Albarino grapes on the vine

A-B

Albarino to Barbera and Bual

dark-skinned Dolcetto grapes on the vine

C-D

Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay to Dolcetto

Clusters of Fiano grapes in a sunlit vineyard in Salento, Puglia

E-F

Edelzwicker to Fiano and Furmint

A view of the village of Chiroubles in Beaujolais

G-H

Gamay and Gruner Veltliner to Hard Seltzer

I-J

Inzolia and Irsay Oliver to Juhfark

K-L

Kerner to Lagrein and Loureiro

M-N

Malbec and Merlot to Nero d’Avola

Bunches of black Primitivo grapes at harvest in an autumnal vineyard, Puglia, southern Italy

O-P

Orange Muscat to Pecorino and Primitivo

View down a row of Riesling grapes on the vine

Q-R

Quagliano to Riesling and Roussanne

Clusters (bunches) of Sangiovese grapes on the vine, among the leaves

S-T

Sangiovese and Syrah to Trebbiano

Clusters of Vermentino grapes on the vine

U-V

Uva di Troia to Vermentino and Viognier

W-X

Welschriesling to Xarel-lo and Xinomavro

Zweigelt vine in Sooss, Lower Austria heavily laden with black grapes.

Y-Z

Zenit and Zinfandel to Zweigelt

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