Light vs. Dark Reds Not a particularly helpful designation as color in red wines can mean little. The assumption is that the darker the color the denser and more tannic the wine, but it’s not true.

Intimidated every time you look for a wine at a wine shop or in the grocery store? Over the centuries, major wine districts in France ...

Red- and black-fruited, with cherry, blackberry, and plum flavors, the wines have an earthy, leathery quality reminiscent of Bordeaux. They also often possess the tannin structure to age.

Merlot is a red wine that is produced from the grape variety of the same name. Stylistically, it runs the gamut from fruit-forward and sweet with oak to more structured and nuanced, capable of ...