The Wine Grapes Project - Tasting 1,368 Grape Varieties

Cramposie Selectionata

I was a bit in doubt if I find this PIWI variety as a dry single varietal wine, only few German winemakers come to my mind who might have tried it...... However, luckily, this German PIWI cross found a new home in Slovakia, where the local winemakers really bring out some greatness in this grape variety. Get more from my wine journey on Instagram 📷 References Vejrhøj "Daler" Danish Hibe...

At the Sebestyén winery in Szekszárd, a region given over almost entirely to red wine, Sebestyén Csilla opens the bottle on a rare white in the portfolio: Cserszegi fűszeres, an aromatic Hungarian crossing the family planted to start tastings and win over people who think they don't much like wine. Get more from my wine journey on Instagram 📷 1. Origin and grape Cserszegi fűszeres is a Hungar...

Kiralyleanyka was long thought to be the same grape as the Romanian Feteasca Regala, bit genetic analysis confirmed that those two grape have nothing to do with each other... A classic and refreshing white wine, popular throughout Hungary, but especially in the Eger region, where it is part of the Egri Csillag blend. Get more from my wine journey on Instagram 📷 ⁠Instagram⁠ Wine Tasted Bolyki Kira...

Frankovka, as they call Blaufränkisch/Lemberger/Kekfrankos here in Czech Republic fits perfectly to the terroir of Nemcicki. Despite warmer temperatures, he does not see a problem for the future. With regards to the more difficult vineyards, Jan uses Blaufränkisch-based PIWIs to reducing labor hours. Vitiforestry and breaking up monoculture are also at the center of efforts here. Planting fruits a...

I always had a crush on Hárslevelű, the aromatic backbone of the Tokaji Aszu blend. However, this grape deserves much more attention than it gets, especially in a dry style, where it really performs when made by talented winemakers like Demeter Zoltán. Get more from my wine journey on Instagram 📷 Instagram Wine Tasted Demeter Zoltán Szerelmi Hárslevelű 2024 Demeter Zoltán Winery Website Descripti...

Zéta is one of the six grapes permitted in Tokaji Aszú, and one you'll almost never see on its own. It's rare enough as a dry, single-varietal wine that I doubted I'd find one at all — until a wine shop in the village of Tokaj turned up a bottle. Get more from my wine journey on Instagram 📷 https://www.instagram.com/uncorkmywine_official/Zéta is a fitting name. In Géza Gárdonyi's...

My first Romanian grape of the project, tasted deep in Transylvania near Dracula country. Fetească Regală, the "royal maiden," is grown almost nowhere but Romania, and at the Liliac winery I taste it two ways: a fresh, steel-tank white full of peach and citric acidity, and a serious, oak-aged Private Selection with the substance to age. I get into the grape's royal naming in 1928, th...

In 1522, the Turk’s were abandoning a siege, because they saw the locals drinking bull’s blood, the famous Egri Bikaver red wine blend…Eger has been one of my first wine trips ever. So, I am especially excited to share this 20-minutes wine travels report with you and introduce you briefly to some of the top wines here. Get more impression from my wine journey on Instagram📷 Instagram: https://www....

Leányka is Eger's "maiden grape," and the reference books are unkind to it, soft, unexciting, usually blended away. I disagree. Tasting a steel-tank Leányka from the Eger legend Tóth Ferenc, I make the case for it as a fresh, saline, high-acid white with real charm, and tell the stories around it: the 1552 Bull's Blood siege, the naming rivalry during Hungary's War of Indepen...

The Wine Grapes encyclopedia describes Juhfark as "perhaps the least modern or internationally appealing of Hungarian varieties." I take a different view, so I went to Somló, a nine-million-year-old volcano in northwest Hungary that formed under an ancient sea and never erupted. Kis Tamás of Somlói Vándor farms six certified-organic hectares across twelve small parcels on the hill. We di...

Csokaszolo

Many countries in the world have their regional Muscat varieties... but often those ore mutations of Muscat Ottonel or Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains. In Czech Republic though, they were simply crossing their own Muscat variety in the 1980s. Get more impression from my wine journey ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠Youtube⁠ Muscat grows all over the world, but in the 1980s Moravian breeders were ambitious enough to make...

Pálava is one of the Czech Republic's signature grapes... ...and at Sonberk, near Popice in South Moravia, it produced a wine Decanter named the world's best dry aromatic white in 2017. In this episode I taste Pálava where it belongs, looking straight at the Pálava Hills it's named after. Get more impression from my wine journey on Instagram 📷 Instagram Youtube Pálava is a Czech cross...

Have you tried ever tried Saphira? Let me know in the comments! Video recorded at Weingut Castellum Liechtenstein Wine tasted by Weingut Hoop, Liechtenstein Project Inspired by Jancis Robinson / Julia Harding / José Vouillamoz: Wine Grapes (2012) . (Affiliate Link) Saphira at PIWI International Saphira in the VIVC : Follow Uncorkmywine on Social Media Instagram Facebook LinkedIn Tiktok About Saphi...

Have you tried a good Scheurebe? Let me know in the comments! Wine tasted by VDP. Weingut Müller-Catoir, Pfalz, Germany. https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/muller+catoir+manderling+scheurebe+trocken+bio+pays+erste+lage+germany+pfalz+haardt/1/germanyProject Inspired by:Jancis Robinson / Julia Harding / José Vouillamoz: Wine Grapes (2012).https://amzn.to/4niaJ7M (Affiliate Link)José Vouillamoz: Swis...

Have you tried a good Müller-Thurgau? Let me know in the comments! Wine tasted by VDP. Weingut Böhme & Töchter, Saale-Unstrut, Germany https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/boheme+tochter+muller+thurgau+trocken+saale+unstrut+germany?srsltid=AfmBOorm0ylFYDIhEUpbGCVF5TzNS_18ca7i_ZGO-ptDDOqlt0WK-DpY Project Inspired by: Jancis Robinson / Julia Harding / José Vouillamoz: Wine Grapes (2012). https://a...

Have you tasted a good Goldriesling? Then let me know in the comments. ine tasted by Martin Schwarz: Project Inspired by:Jancis Robinson / Julia Harding / José Vouillamoz: Wine Grapes (2012).https://amzn.to/4niaJ7M (Affiliate Link)José Vouillamoz: Swiss Grapes (2020).https://amzn.to/44EYFF8 (Affiliate Link)LinksGoldriesling in the VIVC: https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport/view&id=4884Wine...

Chasselas Wine Tasted

Have you ever tasted Aubin Blanc? Let me know in the comments. Project Inspired by:Jancis Robinson / Julia Harding / José Vouillamoz: Wine Grapes (2012).https://amzn.to/4niaJ7M (Affiliate Link)LinksHumagne Blanc in the VIVC: https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport%2Fview&id=759Wine tasted: https://www.domaine-laroppe.fr/produit/cotes-de-toul-blanc-bio-aubin-2023/Follow Uncorkmywine on Social...

Have you ever tasted Aubin Blanc? Let me know in the comments. Project Inspired by:Jancis Robinson / Julia Harding / José Vouillamoz: Wine Grapes (2012).https://amzn.to/4niaJ7M (Affiliate Link)LinksHumagne Blanc in the VIVC: https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport%2Fview&id=759Wine tasted: https://www.domaine-laroppe.fr/produit/cotes-de-toul-blanc-bio-aubin-2023/Follow Uncorkmywine on Social...

Have you tasted a good Humagne Blanc? Then let me know in the comments. Project Inspired by: Jancis Robinson / Julia Harding / José Vouillamoz: Wine Grapes (2012) . (Affiliate Link) Humagne Blanc at Swiss Wine Promotion Humagne Blanc in the VIVC Wine tasted: Mabillard-Fuchs Humagne Blanc 2024 Follow Uncorkmywine on Social Media Instagram Facebook LinkedIn Tiktok Humagne Blanc is a fairly rare grap...

Have you tasted a good Monarch? Then let me know in the comments. Project Inspired by:Jancis Robinson / Julia Harding / José Vouillamoz: Wine Grapes (2012).https://amzn.to/4niaJ7M (Affiliate Link)LinksFalstaff Tasting: https://www.falstaff.com/at/rebsorten/monarchMore about PIWI's: https://coolclimatesummit.com/blog/piwi-varietals/Monarch in the VIVC: https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport%2Fvie...