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Unusual Varietals
Diversity in Wine Page 2
Mustang |
Texas |
Jack Keller proudly makes wines from
native grape varieties.
Mustang is a local Texan grape that has been variously classified
as both Vitis Candicans and Vitis Mustangensis.
Jacks
website champions the indigenous grapes of America. |
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Melnik |
Bulgaria |
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Melnik is a local varietal grown around the town of the same name
in the Petritch region of south-west Bulgaria. A combination
of consumer resistance to unknown names and stretching the more
expensive Cabernet Sauvignon leads to this interesting blend.
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Odessa Black
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Odessa, Ukraine
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A traditional grape from the Odessa region with a wild berry taste,
here blended with a little cabernet.
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Misket |
Bulgaria |
Local variety Misket stretches Chardonnay. The shipper tells me
that 70% of this wine is Misket, but I thought wine labelling
laws insisted in the major varietal listed first. |
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Tannat |
Uruguay |
Used in SW France as part of the blend that makes Madiran Tannat was
taken to Uruguay by Basque settlers late in the 1800s where the dark tannic
grape makes a strong flavoured black wine. |
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15 May 1999 updated 4 December 2000 and 28 May 2001
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