There is a wine called in France a Bordeaux. Is this the wine called a Cabernet in the USA and Australia?
April 21st, 2010
Just want to know is it the same grape, thus, about the same wine.
So if a claret is a bordeaux, thus, the same grape, what is the grape of the bordeaux region in France called in the USA?
Yes, the French are fussy about what they call their wines as they are linked to where grown. My question is about the grape! What grape is it, no matter what the wine is called in the UK or Australia or the United States?
No
A Bordeaux is a wine made in the Bordeaux region of France, and has no relation at all to the grape used.
Not only are many grapes used, Bordeaux wine does not have to be red
Not only are there are many white Bordeaux wines, the origin of the word claret goes back to the true wines of the region which were rose (clairet means pale in French).
Whereas Cabernet is a grape variety.
As for the Claret question/comment, Claret simply has to be a red wine from the Bordeaux region ….. Other than in America, where they ignore the rules the rest of the world have to stick to and use Claret, at the cheap end of the price range, to mean any red wine similar to a Bordeaux wine.
April 21st, 2010 at 9:52 am
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April 21st, 2010 at 10:03 am
No.
Bordeaux is the region the grape was grown in / the wine made in.
Think Napa Valley, for example.
Cabernet is a grape variety.
In the UK red Bordeaux also has the sobriquet Claret. Not all Bordeaux is Claret, but all Claret is Bordeaux.
Hope this isn’t too confusing.
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April 21st, 2010 at 10:37 am
Bordeaux is any wine made in the region of Bordeaux in France and refers to any wine made there irrespective of the grape used.Cabernet Savignon’s home is also in Bordeaux but the savigon (wild ) grape is also grown widely around the world, so it is a bordeaux when grown and made in Bordeaux in France but not when made in California
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April 21st, 2010 at 11:12 am
A Bordeaux wine is any wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France. Average vintages produce over 700 million bottles of Bordeaux wine, although in good vintages, this total can exceed over 900 million, ranging from large quantities of everyday table wine, to some of the most expensive and prestigious wines in the world.
Cabernet Sauvignon is one of the world’s most widely recognized red wine grape varieties. It is grown in nearly every major wine producing country among a diverse spectrum of climates …Try The Cabernet Shiraz from Sula… It is an awesome wine made from Cabernet Sauvigion Grapes and Shiraz grapes…
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April 21st, 2010 at 11:37 am
Almost…..Bordeaux wines are generally blends but there is always cab in the blend…..if you love cabs you’ll enjoy Bordeaux’s from northern region-higher % of cab
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April 21st, 2010 at 11:58 am
Bordeaux reds are made from any of a number of grapes, largely merlot, cabernet and cab franc, and usually a blend of two or more.
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April 21st, 2010 at 12:39 pm
No
A Bordeaux is a wine made in the Bordeaux region of France, and has no relation at all to the grape used.
Not only are many grapes used, Bordeaux wine does not have to be red
Not only are there are many white Bordeaux wines, the origin of the word claret goes back to the true wines of the region which were rose (clairet means pale in French).
Whereas Cabernet is a grape variety.
As for the Claret question/comment, Claret simply has to be a red wine from the Bordeaux region ….. Other than in America, where they ignore the rules the rest of the world have to stick to and use Claret, at the cheap end of the price range, to mean any red wine similar to a Bordeaux wine.
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April 21st, 2010 at 12:55 pm
There are no good (red) Bordeaux wines that are a single grapes. Classic Bordeaux is a blend utilising the traditional red grapes of Bordeaux, namely Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and, to a lesser extent, Malbec and Carmenere. The region in Bordeaux is usually indicative of which grapes are dominant in the blend. "Right Bank" (of the Dordogne) tends to be Merlot dominant blended with Cabernet Franc. "Left Bank" (of the Garonne) tends to be Cabernet Sauvignon dominant and blended with Merlot, Cabernet Franc & Petit Verdot.
White Burgundy is typically Sauvignon Blanc and, in Sauternes, you often find this blended with Semillon for the desert wines.
Claret is now just another English term for a red Bordeaux wine.
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Bordeaux and Bordeaux blend fan, drink a lot of the stuff and have visited the place.