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Riesling (White)

[Grape Variety] The one true classic non-French grape, Riesling is the most versatile, scented white variety in the range of wines it produces from dry to lusciously sweet. Yet it's revival always seems to be just around the next corner.

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Beverley Blanning MW teaches you why wine glasses for different wine styles look different.

Serve white wines chilled

Putting white wine in the fridge can vastly improve its flavour

Aghiorghitiko (red)

[Grape Variety] Aghiorghitiko, which is Greek for St George, is a real charmer, oozing with fruit and soft tannins, with a dark purple, 'black', colour.

Barbera (red)

[Grape Variety] As widely planted in Italy as Sangiovese, but at its best in the hills around Alba and Asti in Italy's north-west, barbera is a variety whose style varies considerably according to yield. When it's low-yielding and matured in small oak cas

Dolcetto (red)

[Grape Variety] Not sweet despite the sweet-sounding nomenclature, this is an everyday north-west Italian variety whose low acidity and tannins make it perfect for lapping up risotto and pasta in the Beaujolais mould.

Melon de Bourgogne/ Muscadet (white)

[Grape Variety] Known better as Muscadet, its region of production in the western Loire close to Nantes, Melon is synonymous with the rather neutral, acidic dry white Loire Valley wine which reached its zenith in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Nebbiolo (red)

[Grape Variety] Arguably Italy's greatest red grape variety, responsible in north-west Italy for the great reds of barolo and barbaresco, whose range of fabulous violet and rose-like perfumes and flavours of truffle, fennel, liquorice and tar, make it one

Aglianico (red)

[Grape Variety] Robust, quality southern Italian red grape variety found mainly on the volcanic slopes of Campania and Basilicata in Italy's south.

Airen (white)

[Grape Variety] Neutral, drought-resistant Spanish variety grown mainly around the La Mancha region.