Wine glossary

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• Abbazia di Rosazzo

  Colli Orientali del Friuli DOC, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, ItalyThis historic abbey has been noted for wines since the 11th century. Modern production includes Colli Orientali varietal

• Abruzzi (Abruzzo)

  ItalyEast of Rome, this region stretches from the beaches on the Adriatic coast to the mountainous Apennine interior. Main wines are the white Trebbiano d’Abruzzo DOC, usually dry

• Acacia

  AcaciaCarneros AVA, California, USAFounded in the late 1970s, Acacia has been a leading producer of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from the Carneros region for almost two decades. The C

• Achkarren

  AchkarrenBaden, GermanyImportant wine village on the western side of the Kaiserstuhl, the stump of an ancient, extinct volcano. The warm climate and volcanic soil give full-bodied

• Ackerman-Laurance

  Ackerman-LauranceLoire Valley, FranceThis was the first firm to make sparkling Saumur using the Champagne method. Today it is the largest producer of fizz in the area. The wines ar

• Aconcagua

  AconcaguaChileA region to the north of Santiago that incorporates both the Aconcagua Valley (where the sole producer is Errázuriz at Panquehue) and, further west, the Casablanca Va

• Adams Vineyard

  Adams VineyardWillamette Valley AVA, Oregon, USAProduction is very small here and mostly from a 7.5ha (19-acre) vineyard planted to Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The Pinot Noir Reserv

• Adanti

  AdantiUmbria, ItalyLocated in Bevagna in central Italy, Adanti produces an astonishing range of characterful wines. The white wines, based primarily on the Grechetto grape, are tig

• Adelsheim Vineyard

  Adelsheim VineyardWillamette Valley AVA, Oregon, USAThis vineyard first hit the headlines with wine labels depicting various local beauties, including the owner’s wife. Since then

• Age

  Rioja DOC, SpainLarge Rioja producer. A huge recent investment to build Rioja’s largest vinification plant may improve the whole range. The Siglo Saco red Crianza is their best kno

• Aglianico del Vulture

  Basilicata, ItalyRed wine produced from the Aglianico grape grown on the steep slopes of Mt Vulture, an extinct volcano. Despite being one of Italy’s most southerly DOCs, the grape

• Ahr

  AhrGermanyThe Ahr Valley is a largely red wine region a few miles south of Bonn. The chief grape varieties are the Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir) and the (Blauer) Portugieser. Many Ahr

• Aigle

  AigleChablais, Vaud, SwitzerlandVillage in the Chablais sub-region of the Swiss Vaud making white wines from the Dorin (as the locals call the Chasselas grape) and reds from the Pi

• Airén

  AirénSpain’s ­ and indeed the world’s ­ most planted white grape can make gently fruity, fresh modern whites, or thick, yellow, old-fashioned brews depending upon the skills of the

• Ajaccio AC

  Ajaccio ACCorsica, FranceFrom the west of the island around Ajaccio, this is one of the better Corsican ACs. The reds often need two or three years in bottle to show at their best.

• Alban Vineyards

  Alban VineyardsEdna Valley AVA, San Luis Obispo County, California, USAJohn Alban is mad about Rhône varieties. In his cool-climate vineyards, he grows Viognier, Roussanne and Syra

• Albana di Romagna DOCG

  Albana di Romagna DOCGRomagna, Emilia-Romagna, ItalyIn the hills south of Bologna and Ravenna, Italy’s first white DOCG was a political appointment that caused outrage among wine e

• Albariño

  AlbariñoBy far Spain’s most characterful white grape. It grows in Galicia in Spain’s rainy north-west, and, as Alvarinho, over the border in Portugal, in the Vinho Verde region. Wh

• Alcamo DOC

  Alcamo DOCSicily, ItalyOne of Sicily’s best dry whites. Made from the indigenous Catarratto grape grown in western Sicily, between Marsala and Palermo, it is dry, nutty and rounded

• Alderbrook

  AlderbrookDry Creek Valley AVA, California, USAAlderbrook, founded in 1982 when an old plum orchard was ripped out and planted to vines, made its mark with straight-ahead, fruity C

• Aleatico

  AleaticoAn ancient, native Italian grape that produces sweet, after-dinner wines of quite notable alcoholic strength in Apulia, Latium, Umbria and Tuscany, where a small revival is