This survey course provides advanced wine students with a thorough knowledge of the wine world's principal and potentially important grapevine varieties and their respective varietal wines. The history of vine varieties, their wines, and their role in the wine trade has become increasingly important as the market for wine has become global. Featured topics are varietal wine sensory characteristics, the diversity of expression of varietal wines from different growing regions, the history of their use, their genetic relationship to other varieties, their use in wine blends, and their performance as varietal wines in the world market. Class tastings focus on examples that showcase each variety's sensory characteristics. How the personal hand of the enological consultant, the winemaker, or the producer influences each example are essential topics of discussion.

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