What is a Spanish grenache wine?

Garnacha is a thin-skinned grape, dubbed ‘the Pinot Noir of the south’, which doesn’t bring a lot of tannins to the final wine. But what it lacks in tannins, it makes up for in alcohol – often reaching above 14% abv.

Is Tempranillo the same as Grenache?

While Garnacha is highly alcoholic with tasting notes of spice, Tempranillo is medium-bodied with red fruit flavor, when blended together they balance each other out to make the Spanish favorite, Rioja.

Where is the best Grenache from?

Known throughout the world, Grenache’s famed home is southern France. In its most famous appellations, this spicy grape is one of the 13 permitted blending varieties and often the primary grape used in the Rhône Valley’s famous wines of Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

What is a Spanish Garnacha?

Grenache is a blue grape variety of Spanish origin, where it is known as garnacha or garnatxa. It is even Spain’s second-most cultivated grape (after tempranillo), frequently used in blends. Axial Vinos knows better than anyone how the grape thrives perfectly well on its own.

Is Grenache dry or sweet?

Dry, semi-sweet, or sweetGrenache / Sweetness of resulting wine

Is Grenache a good wine?

Often unfairly overlooked, Grenache is very versatile with food and a good idea no matter the season. Grenache is one of the unsung heroes of the wine world.

Is Rioja a Garnacha?

This grape variety native to Spain is the most extensively grown variety in the world. In Rioja, it complements the Tempranillo with its aromas and freshness. With good extract and alcoholic strength, its wines vary depending on environmental conditions (temperature) and tending practices (production).

Is Rioja the same as Garnacha?

Since most Garnacha wines are labelled as generic Rioja, producers do not have to use the standard 225-litre barrels required to label their wines as crianza, reserva or gran reserva.

What is the difference between Garnacha and tempranillo?

The name Tempranillo, which means “little early one”, apparently comes from the variety’s habit of ripening earlier than other grapes. Garnacha, on the other hand, ripens much later in the season.

Is garnacha the same as Grenache?

This month we are going to taste three different wines made from a single variety of grape: If the wine is French, the grape is grenache; if the wine is Spanish, it’s garnacha. And it’s winemaker’s choice what to call it if it comes from the United States (this producer calls it grenache).

Is Grenache a heavy wine?

By general consensus, Grenache is not considered to be a heavy wine. While the warm colouration, high alcohol content and rich, tannin-y flavours make Grenache a particularly full-bodied wine, Grenache itself is designed with medium heaviness in mind.

Do you refrigerate grenache wine?

Gamay, the grape of France’s Beaujolais region, and fruity, spicy, modern grenache both fit the bill well, but don’t freeze these red wines to death – 15 or 20 minutes in the fridge should be enough to enhance freshness and quenching qualities without numbing aroma and flavour.

What does Spanish Grenache taste like?

At its core, Grenache appeals to many people with its intense fruity and herbal notes. Berries that shine through are strawberries, black cherries, and raspberries, with hints of cinnamon and anise, as well. The flavor profile of Grenache as a whole can be likened to the taste of a fruit roll-up.

Is Rioja a Grenache?

In Spain, there are monovarietal wines made of Garnacha tinta (red Grenache), notably in the southern Aragon wine regions of Calatayud, Carinena and Campo de Borja, but it is also used in blends, as in some Rioja wines with tempranillo….