Red wine
By colour
Red wine ferments the juice together with the grape skins. The skins give the colour and the tannin. Most red wine is dry, and it tastes best a little below room temperature.
Base grapes
- Cabernet Sauvignonfull, firm, blackcurrant and cedar
- Merlotsoft, plummy, round
- Pinot noirlight, silky, red cherry and earth
- Syrahdark fruit, pepper, smoke
- Tempranillored fruit, leather, vanilla from oak
- Sangiovesesour cherry, herbs, savoury
- Grenacheripe strawberry, warm spice
- Malbecplush, dark plum, cocoa
- Zinfandeljammy, spicy, high alcohol
- Nebbiolopale, tar and roses, grippy
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Sources
Facts: Wikipedia, Red wine (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikidata Q1827 (CC0). The description, the grape list and the bands are ours.