For those looking to try a high-quality yet still affordable bottle, Costco carries a great sauvignon blanc ... Pinot grigio is made from the eponymous pinot grigio grape, a mutation of pinot noir.

Pinot Blanc is the result of a genetic mutation that caused it to form its own characteristics. So while Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris or Grigio, Pinot Meunier, and Pinot Blanc are all related ...

There’s the Pinot noir from Burgundy, California or New Zealand, Pinot Meunier in Champagne, Pinot gris in Alsace or Pinot blanc in Italy. The vine stocks used in viticulture are obtained by ...

Pinot Blanc (or in Italy, Pinot Bianco ... in the U.S. It’s in the same family as Pinot Noir, like Pinot Grigio; the skins are just pale green as opposed to red/purple. Odds are, you’ve ...

It may surprise many wine drinkers to learn that both gris/grigio and blanc are, in turn, colour mutations of pinot noir, the red-skinned berry responsible for the vaunted reds of Burgundy and for ...

This popular red grape originated in Burgundy but has spread across the New World. Like its white Burgundian counterpart Chardonnay, Pinot Noir is early-budding, early-ripening and thin-skinned. The ...

Judging by the numbers, white wine lovers in the U.S. are loathe to give up their glass of Chardonnay. Last year, according to Dr. Liz Thach, MW (using Nielsen scan data), consumers snapped up ...

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