Grenache
Red fruit and roundness in many blends.
It is prominent in the southern Rhône and Spain, where it is called Garnacha.
Other useful names
Garnacha
What to notice
Compare a varietal Grenache with a blend: its generous fruit can be balanced by more structured grapes.
Explore styles and places
Style descriptions are guides, not rules: vintage, vineyard, blending and maturation change the result.
Provence — Grenache and Syrah feature in blends whose colour alone does not predict flavour or sweetness.
Rhône Valley — Syrah leads in the north; Grenache often plays a major role farther south.
Languedoc — Languedoc is both a broad wine region and a regional PDO: the two scopes are not interchangeable.
Roussillon — The key distinction is between dry wine and vin doux naturel, whose fermentation is stopped by adding alcohol.
