Red Grapes

List of red grapes that are used to make red wine

• Abbuotto
• Abouriou
• Acolon
• Alfrocheiro Preto
• Alicante Bouschet
• Alicante Ganzin
• Alvarelhão / Brancelho
• Amorghiano
• Ancellotta
• Aragónez
• Aramon
• Areni
• Aspiran
• Aubun
• Avana
• Avarengo
• Băbească Neagră
• Baco Noir
• Baga
• Barbarossa
• Barbera
• Barsalinga
• Bastardo/ Trousseau
• Bellone
• Béquignol
• Black Muscat
• Blatina
• Blauburger
• Blauer Portugieser / Blauer Portuguiser
• Blaufränkisch / Lemberger
• Bobal
• Bogazkere
• Bonarda
• Bondola
• Bordo/Ives Noir
• Bouchalès
• Bovale
• Borgonja Crna
• Brachetto or Braquet
• Brancellao
• Brown Muscat
• Brun Fourca
• Bual / Boal
• Cabernet Franc
• Cabernet Sauvignon
• Cabernet Severny
• Caddiu
• Cagnulari
• Caiño Tinto
• Caladoc
• Calitor
• Callet
• Caloria
• Canaiolo
• Canina nera
• Caricagiola
• Carignan / Carignane / Cariñena / Carignano /Mazuelo
• Carménère
• Carmine
• Carnelian
• Castelão / Periquita
• Castets
• Castiglione
• Catanese
• Centurian
• Cesanese
• Cesar
• Charbono
• Cienna
• Ciliegiolo
• Cinsaut / Cinsault/ Ottavianello
• Colorino
• Complexa
• Cornalin
• Cornifesto
• Corvina / Corvinone
• Dolcetto
• Domina
• Dornfelder
• Dunkelfelder
• Espadeiro
• Étraire
• Fer
• Ferrón
• Fetească Neagră
• Forcayat/Forcallat
• Fortana
• Fumin
• Gaglioppo
• Gamashara
• Gamay / Gamay Noir
• Gamaret
• Garanoir
• Garnatxa / Grenache / Garnacha / Cannonau
• Garrut
• Girò
• Graciano/ Moristel
• Grand Noir de la Calmette
• Gran Negro / Grão Negro
• Greco Nero
• Grignolino
• Gropello
• Grolleau / Groslot
• Gros Verdot
• Guarnaccia
• Helfensteiner
• Heroldrebe
• Hondarrabi Beltza
• Humagne Rouge / Cornalin d'Aoste
• Jaén
• Joubertin / Jaubertin
• Juan Garcia
• Juan Ibáñez / Miguel del Arco
• Jurancon noir
• Kadarka
• Kakhet
• Kalecik Karasi
• Kékoporto / Kékoportó
• Kindzmarauli
• Kotsifali
• Kratosija
• Lacrima di Morro / Lacrima Nera
• Lagrein
• Lambrusco
• Liatiko
• Limnio
• Listan Negro
• Lladoner Pelut / Lledoner Pelut
• Madrasa
• Magaratch Bastardo
• Magaratch Ruby / Magarach Ruby
• Magliocco / Magliocco Canino
• Maiolica
• Malbec / Auxerrois / Cot
• Malvasia di Schierano
• Malvasia Nera
• Mammolo
• Mandelaria / Mandelari
• Mandolari
• Manseng noir
• Mantonegro
• Mara
• Maratheftiko
• Marselan
• Marsigliana
• Marzemino
• Matrassa
• Mavro
• Mavrodafni/ Mavrodaphne
• Mavrud / Mavroudi
• Mayorquin
• Meghrabujr
• Melnik
• Mencia/ Jaen
• Merenzao
• Merille
• Merlot
• Milgranet
• Millot
• Mission
• Molinara
• Mondeuse
• Monica
• Montepulciano
• Montù / Montuni
• Moravia
• Moreto
• Moristel
• Morrastel Bouschet
• Mourisco Tinto
• Mourvèdre / Monastrell / Mataro
• Mouyssaguès
• Mschali
• Mujuretuli
• Muscardin
• Muscat
• Nebbiolo
• Negoska
• Negrara
• Négrette
• Negroamaro
• Negru de Dragasani
• Nerkarat
• Nero Buono di Cori
• Nero d'Avola
• Nerello Cappuccio
• Nerello Mascalese
• Neretto di Bairo
• Neyret
• Nielluccio
• Nincusa
• Nocera
• Notardomenico
• Ojaleshi
• Öküzgözü
• Olivella nera
• Oseleta
• Ojaleshi
• Pais
• Pamid
• Parana
• Pascale di Cagliari
• Pelaverga
• Peloursin
• Perdal
• Perricone
• Persan
• Petit Rouge
• Petit Verdot
• Picpoul Noir
• Piedirosso
• Pignerol
• Pignola Valtellinese
• Pignolo
• Pineau d'Aunis
• Pinot Meunier / Schwarzriesling / Müllerebe
• Pinot Noir / Spätburgunder / Blauburgunder / Pinot Nero
• Pinotage
• Pinot St. George
• Plassa
• Plavac Mali
• Plavina
• Pollera Nera
• Portan
• Portugieser
• Poulsard/ Plousard
• Prieto Picudo
• Primitivo
• Prokupac
• Provechon
• Roesler
• Rondinella
• Rossese
• Rossignola
• Rossola Nera
• Rotberger
• Rouchet/ Ruché / Roche
• Rubired
• Ruby Cabernet
• Rufete / Tinta Pinheira / Tinta Carvalha / Rufeta
• Sagrantino
• Sangiovese
• Saperavi
• Schiava / Trollinger
• Schioppettino
• Schönburger
• Sciacarello
• Sciascinoso
• Segalin / Ségalin
• Shiraz / Syrah
• Sousão
• Sousón
• St. Laurent / Svatovavrinecke
• St-Macaire
• Sumoll
• Susumaiello
• Taminga
• Tannat
• Tarrango
• Tempranillo / Tinta Roriz / Ull de Llebre / Cencibel / Tinta del Pais
• Teroldego / Teroldego Rotaliano
• Terret Noir
• Thiniatiko
• Tibouren
• Tinta Amarela
• Tinta Barroca
• Tinta Caiada
• Tinta Carvalha
• Tinta Francisca
• Tinta Madeira
• Tinta Miuda
• Tinta Negra Mole / Preto Martinho
• Tinta Pinheira
• Tinto Cão
• Trincadeira/ Castelão / Torneiro
• Troia / Uva di Troia
• Trollinger
• Trousseau
• Turca
• Wildbacher/Blauer Wildbacher
• Zinfandel / Primitivo
• Zweigelt

Mulled Cider Recipe

A wine recipe prepared from apple and lemon fruits.

Ingredients

• Apple Cider - 2 Quarts
• Red Apple - 2
• Mulling Mix - 1 package (or)
• Mulling Sachets - 4
• Brown Sugar - ½ cup
• Salt - ½ tsp
• Cinnamon - 7 sticks (2-3/4" length)
• Raisin - ¼ cup
• Orange - 5 slices
• Lemon - 2 slices
• Lemon or Orange Juice - ¼ cup

Method

Remove apple core and piece apple into ½" thick apple rings.

Mix all things [except orange, lemon slices and lemon juice] in a gallon pot.

Allow to boil until apples appear tender. Add remaining things.

Garnish with one apple ring, raisin and cinnamon stick then serve.

Wine Making Process

Wine Making Process in the Colorado Rockies

Wine Dictionary

Ageing – Progressive softening of wine and the development of bouquet.

Beverage Wines – Wines with average quality and strength.

Body – Wine Quality which gives appearance of consistency and vinous strength.

Bouquet – Odour or perfume of the wine.

Brut. Of Champagne - with no added sugar or liqueur

Butt – I80 to I40 gallons of sherry or Malaga.

Cordial – Light liqueur many by the infusion of alcohol and sugar with fruit juices.

Cuvee – Contents of a cellar

Dry – Wines with no excess of sugar, opposed to sweet

Ethers – Unanalyzable components found in old wines.

Fiery – Smeared to raw spirits or raw wine

Fortifying – Adding wine spirit in port and sherry wine making

Frappe – Iced sparkling wine for the table

Must – Grape Juice before the process of fermentation

Oidium - A mildew disease of the vine.

Racking – Separating the deposit from the bright wine

Vintage Wines – Wines of High Character

Woody – Tainted wine from a defective or rotten stave in the cask

Advantages of online wine shopping

Choosing and buying wine was an art, it requires extensive research and trial & error method. Years back the simplest approach is to go to a local liquor shop, trust the salesman recommendation of a wine in stock. If you were lucky enough, you will discover your favorite wine, you will not be aware if they were available until you go to a store and found out.

Well, now times have changed. World Wide Web has the entire wines buried in them. There are only advantages to this entire online wine experience.

No one could deny it that, now online wine shopping is a fast and convenient way to buy they like. If a person is shopping for online wine, he/she have a couple of options. They can buy directly from a winery or from a specialist online wine merchant.

If you are not sure about winning the thrust and jumping online to buy your next case of wine, here are some of the advantages why you should try your hand in online wine shopping.

Here are some of the added benefits of online wine shopping:

•    Varieties in wine
•    Favorable bargains
•    Time convenient
•    Research and Purchase
•    Price Comparison

Spring and the Fashionable wines

Finally its spring, it’s time to lighten up. Flowers are blooming; the days are longer, a best time to enjoy a pleasant cool glass of wine.

When we think of spring, we also think of fresh flowers, berries, flimsy-soft airiness and blooming meadows. And of course those lethargic afternoons and brisk evening! Why can’t we prepare our self to enjoy some fresh spring wines?

A spring wine? Is that idea vague? Try some of these parameters, you can choose the best wine to decorate your spring table.

•    No wood, embrace your steel tank
•    More lemony and green flavors are better
•    Land in a delicious place, freshness does not mean simple
•    Screwcaps a darn good one

Here are some top wines for spring

1.    Funky Whites
2.    Chenin Blanc
3.    Fiano or Falanghina
4.    Viognier
5.    Barrel Aged Sauvignon Blanc
6.    Chandon Brut
7.    Bearboat Pinot Noir

Wine proverbs

Good wine is a necessity of life for me. - Thomas Jefferson

Wine is the thinking person's health drink. - Dr. Phillip Norrie

I have enjoyed great health at a great age because every day since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles. - A Bishop of Seville

If your heart is warm with happiness, you'll need a glass - if sorrow chills your heart, have two! - Hannu Lehmusvuori

I cook with wine.  Sometimes I even add it to the food.  - W.C. Fields

No one that has drunk old wine wants new; for he says, "The old is nice." - Luke 5:39

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. - Andre Simon, "Commonsense of Wine"

Making good wine is a skill. Fine wine is an art. - Robert Mondavi

Wine ...moderately drunken
It doth quicken a man's wits,
It doth comfort the heart.
---Andrew Boorde

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. - Aldous Huxley

Wine is the "healthiest and most health-giving of drinks." - Louis Pasteur

Sweetness belongs in the Mosel wine like the bubbles belong in the Champagne. - Nik Weiss

"The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars." --Benjamin Franklin

Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it. - Anonymous

"Come quickly! I am tasting stars!" - Dom Perignon (1638-1714) at his first sip of champagne

"Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die." - Julia Child

Possible mistakes that can happen while preparing wine

Inadequate Equipment:

The wine making equipments may look same as home utensils but they are made of some special materials. Pails, carboys, air locks and spoons are the major equipments needed to prepare wine. Reusing plastic pails which is previously held food products is a major mistake. The food order may remain in the pail and it will taint the wine. Pails made from plastics cannot be used for wine making.

Cleaning and Sanitizing:

The specific reason for failure in wine making is lack of cleaning and sanitation. Cleaning is the process of removing the chemicals from the equipments. Sanitizing is the process of preventing the growth of spoilage organisms in the equipments. All the process carried out with wine preparation should be clean and properly sanitized to avoid failure of your batch.

Bad Water:

Water is not a very big problem in this preparation. The ordinary water which you used for drinking is quite fit for wine preparation. If the mineral like iron content is high in water then it is unfit for wine making process. The water get from water softener is also not used for this process.

Poor Yeast Handling:

The yeast can be re-hydrated or can be directly sprinkle on the juice as per your wish. The packet of dried yeast is of good quality and it can be used directly. The major problem with this is the people should have a clear idea before going for re-hydration. The improper re-hydration will spoil the goodness of wine.

Adding Sulfite and Sorbate at the Wrong Time:

The stabilizers like Sulfite and Sorbate should be used to inhibit the yeast activity. The stabilizers should be added in a proper time. If you add it too earlier then the fermenting process cannot be completed successfully. The sorbate added in the first day will make the yeast not to get active which in turn spoils the fermentation process.