Wine made primarily from a single named grape variety
This article is about a type of wine. For the horticultural term, see cultivar.
A varietal Californian wine, a Zinfandel.
A varietal wine is a wine made primarily from a single named grape variety, and which typically displays the name of that variety on the wine label.[1][2] Examples of grape varieties commonly used in varietal wines are Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Merlot. Wines that display the name of two or more varieties on their label, such as a Chardonnay-Viognier, are blends and not varietal wines. The term is frequently misused in place of vine variety; the term variety refers to the vine or grape, while varietal refers to the wine produced by a variety.[2]
The term was popularized in the US by Maynard Amerine at the University of California, Davis after Prohibition seeking to encourage growers to choose optimal vine varieties, and later promoted by Frank Schoonmaker in the 1950s and 1960s, ultimately becoming widespread during the California wine boom of the 1970s.[2] Varietal wines are commonly associated with New World wines in general, but there is also a long-standing tradition of varietal labelling in Germany and other German-influenced wine regions including Austria, Alsace, and the Czech Republic.
^The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000.
^ abcwinepros.com.au. Oxford Companion to Wine. "varietal". Archived from the original on 2008-07-26. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
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