Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Writers on wine often assign personalities to wine grapes and to the wines made from them. Cabernet sauvignon, for example, I think of as Rex Harrison: ...

GRENACHE, or garnacha, as it is known in much of the world, was one of the first vinifera grapes planted in Washington, about a half century ago. In those days it was blended, or made into rosé, but ...

Grenache noir grapes at Tablas Creek Vineyard, which practices dry-farming through its 105 acres of vines, in Paso Robles, Calif., in 2015. A terrific example of this style of wine — and a great value ...

Certain wine grapes get all the attention. Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon – they’re the Justin Bieber and Leonardo Dicaprios of the wine world. But if you dig a little deeper, there are ...

What a funny existential life Grenache has, and not in that Camus way. Certainly, it's not a stranger - despite recent declines, it's still the world's fifth most planted red wine grape, with nearly ...

In the early days of the modern Washington wine industry, one grape that seemed to be making a bit of headway was Grenache, a red grape best known in the southern Rhone Valley of France. In 1967, ...

BY Monday, I honestly thought I was home and dry – that I had got away with not predicting grape varieties that will (might) ...

A wine grape famous in France and Spain long has been grown in Washington but has caught on as an important variety in only the past several years. Grenache is a late-ripening red variety that thrives ...

It has become a theme around here that Grenache stands to become a great hope for West Coast wine - stepping in where Syrah had boldly tried to go. This happy grape, native to both the Rhone and Spain ...

Aquarians are the dreamers of the zodiac who have the biggest ideas and attract people with their infectious charisma. They are the ones who bring the party, which is why the Grenache grape suits this ...