Less than a decade ago, you didn’t hear about red blends. Sure, red grape varieties have been blended by European winemakers for centuries, but producers were limited by law to specific varieties.

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Editor’s Note: This biweekly column is sponsored by Dominion Wine and Beer (107 Rowell Court, Falls Church). This column is written by Dominion owner Arash Tafakor. In part one of our red wine blend ...

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They seem to be everywhere these days: red wines whose labels bear a fanciful name (think The Spur or Wildebeest) instead of the name of a grape variety. Red blends are a hot category in wine these ...

Chronicle tasters are big fans of red wines from Washington state, particularly Syrah, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. These wines -- made largely from fruit grown east of the Cascade Mountains, in the ...

Given the recent media attention on red blends, one would think that the idea of combining grape varieties into a single wine is a novel concept. Hardly. It’s rare to find a Bordeaux made from one ...

It’s the dead of winter, so lucky for us that red wine blends — perfect paired with cold-weather comfort food — are so blazingly popular right now. Wine shops are devoting entire sections to these ...

Dan Berger debunks the anonymous red wine blends of America and offers a few global alternatives. The trend du jour for the American wine industry is the amorphous red wine blend, which I consider to ...

“Red wine” is a beverage category so unbelievably diverse it can feel like you have to take a class before you go shopping for it. It’s made nearly everywhere in the world, it encompasses the distinct ...