Bordeaux wines with novel grapes retain 'classical' taste – study

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Bordeaux wines with novel grapes retain 'classical' taste – study

Two professional juries tasted different versions of a classical Bordeaux wine that incorporated one of five grape varieties from Southwest France, a cross from the 1950s and a Portuguese grape. Results broadly suggested no major impact on the wines’ regional ‘typicity’ when novel grapes were included at up to 30% of the blend, according to the study published in the OENO One journal earlier this month. ‘Bordeaux typicity was never drastically a…