Wine Enthusiast calls Chenin Blanc the “little black dress of the wine world” and we couldn’t agree more. With the annual Franschhoek Bastille Festival happening mid-July, our French winemaking ...

Chenin blanc is a white grape that’s beloved in many wine circles, but might not be in your everyday rotation. Generally, it produces a wine that is neither too heavy nor too light in body, and always ...

If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. If there was a boxing match of sorts for sommeliers, it wouldn’t be hard to get them to trade punches over ...

For many wine drinkers white is not the color of wine they want to indulge in over the winter months. But, as the winter comes to a close, and the white stuff on the ground has been blessedly absent, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Chenin Blanc from Napa Valley is bright, textured, and subtle; it tastes and smells like orchard fruit and gentle florals and has ...

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 ...

Perhaps chenin blanc is the white grape that I like best. To the extent that you can actually have a favorite grape. There are so many that are good. But chenin blanc is unusually exciting and ...

I have heard chenin blanc described as “the riesling of the Loire.” What is meant by this is chenin can be hard to understand. I get it. I have trouble precisely identifying its aromatics, and ...

The universe of wine has a tidy delineation—the Old World and the New. Falling on the “Old” side, of course, are the European countries: France, Italy, Spain … where wine has been produced (and ...