Comments on: Argentinean Malbec http://www.jefflouella.com/partake/argentinean-malbec Read, study, and grow, because achievement can be had at any age. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:00:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mark http://www.jefflouella.com/partake/argentinean-malbec#comment-117 Mark Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:24:20 +0000 http://208.113.186.74/?p=61#comment-117 Hi Jeff, I went to Napa Valley last summer and talked to representatives at a few wineries. I was told most wines actually have more than one variety of grape represented, and that Malbec was a very popular grape to mix with other grapes. When a bottle of wine is more than 75% of a particular grape, they just call the wine by that grape. So if a bottle of wine is 80% Merlot, 10% Cabernet, and 10% Malbec, then they would just call this Merlot. Most wines are actually a mix of grapes like the example above. I've confirmed this statistic (>75%) on Wikipedia below. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine</a> If you don't decide to create wine with just the Malbec grape, you may want to consider using Malbec like a lot of winemakers do, which is as a grape to compliment another variety. This next harvest season I'm thinking about picking up some Cabernet and Malbec grapes. I'll probably make a 80/20 combo and see how it turns out! Hi Jeff,
I went to Napa Valley last summer and talked to representatives at a few wineries. I was told most wines actually have more than one variety of grape represented, and that Malbec was a very popular grape to mix with other grapes. When a bottle of wine is more than 75% of a particular grape, they just call the wine by that grape. So if a bottle of wine is 80% Merlot, 10% Cabernet, and 10% Malbec, then they would just call this Merlot. Most wines are actually a mix of grapes like the example above. I’ve confirmed this statistic (>75%) on Wikipedia below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine

If you don’t decide to create wine with just the Malbec grape, you may want to consider using Malbec like a lot of winemakers do, which is as a grape to compliment another variety. This next harvest season I’m thinking about picking up some Cabernet and Malbec grapes. I’ll probably make a 80/20 combo and see how it turns out!

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