You might think of white wine exclusively for drinking on a sunny porch during the summer, but white wines also can be full bodied and pair well with heartier winter dishes.
If you aren't a fan of white wine, Southern Rhone whites will change your mind.
As the seasons change, what we eat
changes, and so the wine we drink will change too. Grenache is a perfect autumn
wine – its a nice transition from lighter wines drunk on the patio
during the summer to fuller bodied wines best enjoyed sitting by a
fireplace during winter.
Grenache (Greh-nosh) is thought to have
originated in northern Spain, and from there transplanted to southern
France and the islands of Corsica and Sardinia. There is also a
school of thought that Grenache is indigenous to the islands and was
brought to Spain after the Spaniards invaded in the 13th
Century.
In more recent history, Grenache has been
transplanted in Australia, California, and Washington.
