As the most versatile wine grape, chenin blanc closely follows riesling. Both grapes are prince as well as pauper, making great dry wines, dessert wines, pricey and elegant wines and cheap bulk wines.

As you peruse the white-wine aisles of most stores, dominated as they are by chardonnay and sauvignon blanc, it's hard to believe chenin blanc ever reigned supreme in California. But it did. Known ...

Certain wine regions and particular types of grapes often get unfairly overlooked. That’s why I made a point recently of writing about several, outstanding Pinotage red wines from South Africa. This ...

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Chenin blanc is undergoing a renaissance of sorts, clawing back respectability after overcoming its reputation as one of the main ingredients in mid to late 20th-century bulk white wines. Many were ...

Among the white wines everyone should try but not many have sits chenin blanc. Underestimated, chenin blanc can do almost anything. The versatile grape makes convincing dry and off-dry wines, ...

Wine is either sweet or dry, right? It’s a simple question, yet wine is rarely that simple. Chenin blanc, the grape we have been examining over the last month, typifies some of the complexities that ...

MONTREAL - When I was last in South Africa, I asked Springfield Estate’s Jeanette Bruwer why more high-quality chenin blanc wasn’t being produced, considering they have lots of very old vines ...

The white wine grape, originally from France’s Loire Valley, was widely planted in California’s early wine-growing days, thanks to a reliably abundant, high-acid crop in almost any conditions. But ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the people, business and politics of the wine industry. Today, June 20, is the annual celebration of Drink Chenin ...