If you're a winemaker, having a little-known but delicious varietal up your sleeve is no bad thing, given the constant pressure to satisfy consumers' ever more fickle palates.
Although the characters in the film consume all sorts of wines, it's whiny oenophile Miles' poignant ode to this oft overlooked and finicky varietal that has moviegoers rushing to .
The rare Loire varietal was introduced in 1519 under Franois I, and that this patch survived the phylloxera epidemic is as miraculous an anomaly as the nectar it produces.
David Lynch in Orlando Sentinel It's a German thing, I guess,said Lynch in a recent e-mail interview. "German precision. I love the fine-tuned engineering of the varietal whites of the Alto Adige. White wine is all about aromatics and brightness, and that's what the...
Glenn in San Francisco Chronicle I don't think I've ever seen a varietal take off as dynamically as Pinot has in the last two years,says Glenn Proctor, a broker with the bulk wine and grape brokerage firm Joseph W. Ciatti Co.
Deborah Read in Boston Globe The color of the oil depends on the varietal and the timing in the harvest season,Rogers said.