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If local conditions (soil and climate) are of great importance, the variety of grapes is essential, color and type of wine can depend. Here are the potential capabilities of each of them:
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Cabernet Sauvignon: red variety, good tinting strength, tannic. Keeps well structured wine that needs full sun to mûrissemen. Thick skin.
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Cabernet Franc: red grape, cousin of the former.
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Carmenère: Carmenère: red grape quality but bastardized. Do not participate in any classified growth but is being regenerated by selection. |
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| Malbec: red grape regression is not of the first three named. | |
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Merlot : red grape gives flexibility, roundness, flesh acidity and good performance thin skin sensitive to moisture.
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| Malbec: red grape in decline - does not reach the quality of the first named. | |
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Muscadelle: white grape very widespread (Sauternes). |
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Petit Verdot: red grape very late, when the acidity gives is not very mature (which is) very sweet, has a good color in the fine vintages. |
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Petit Manseng
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Sauvignon: white grape, delicate and aromatic.
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Sémillon : white grape. Low power aromatic young wines. Give sugar and acidity. Begin to speak after three years in the bottle. Accepts many noble rot. Graves Blanc.
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