Cabernet Sauvignon has long been responsible for some of the world's most talked-about, appreciated and expensive wines. In Bordeaux, it is worshiped. In the 1990s, when California and other New World ...

A certain faction of wine drinkers like to state (often emphatically) they drink only old-world wine. It is widely accepted that they mean bottles from France, Italy and Spain made with native grapes ...

Mon dieu—Bordeaux vineyards are currently in deep distress. A downy mildew is affecting grapes in the region, with 90 percent of some vineyards being plagued, The Connexion reported recently. The ...

Merlot-based wines usually have medium body with hints of berry, plum and currant. Its softness and “fleshiness,” combined with its earlier ripening, make Merlot a popular grape for blending with the ...

This roundup from Christopher Waters includes some of the most expensive bottles of red produced in the country ...

Call it the Louvre of art museums, the Rose Bowl of college football, the Everest of mountaineering, or something more clever that you come up with on your own, but I think we can all agree that ...

If you drink red wine during this season of feasts, you likely drink cabernet sauvignon or merlot or a blend of the two. Other reds may compete for your attention, but cab and merlot rule the red wine ...

Perhaps no country on Earth is as geographically suited to the production of red wines as Chile. The primary grape growing region of the valley to the east and south of Santiago has some astonishing ...

Syrah, Merlot, and Cabernet Sauvignon — that wine experts love for their depth, balance, and exceptional value.