Ep 505: Alternatives to a Favorite -- Grenache (Garnacha)

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🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

It's another addition to the "Alternatives to a Fave" series! This time: Grenache/Garnacha.

As an extension of the Grape Mini-series, we come up with lists of wines that lovers of a specific grape can try as alternatives. Grenache/Garnacha comes in many different forms -- as a juicy, cherry-berry standalone grape in Spain, as lighter blender in the Rhône and Rioja, in rosé and fortified wines, and as full, serious wine in places like Priorat (Spain), Châteauneuf-du-Pape (France), and Australia, where old vines make very intense wines.

Photo: Grenache grapes in California. Credit: Getty Images via Canva

This one was a challenge, but we came up with a good list of ideas and most won't burn a hole in your wallet! This show focuses only on the red wines (not rosé or sweet wines) and our list includes everything from Zinfandel to Nero d'Avola, to Valpolicella and Alentejo blends (Portugal), on the lighter side to Syrah, Amarone, and Aglianico on the heavy side.

We hope, as usual, that this show opens some new doors and gives you new ideas of wines to add to your repertoire!

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0:50.0	We had two great shows to kick off 2024 and now we get to the bad one
0:58.3	MCS we can always rely on you to really frame the issue. I like to think of these episodes as the
1:05.8	more practical ones. You know we have several different episode types.
1:09.5	Over 500 episodes we have come up with various types of course there's the guest
1:14.9	podcast there's the great many series the regions and the greats and and then we have
1:20.9	general shows and things on industry topics.
1:23.8	There's a lot of different shows.
1:25.0	But I like to think of this kind of show,
1:27.6	even though it is an extension of the Great Minnie Series because we are doing
1:31.0	the Alternatives 2 series this time this is on Alternatives to
1:36.2	Grenache or Garnacha. I don't know why you'd want an alternative to that but
1:41.3	this is a fantastic series suggested by a patron
1:44.0	but the problem is that if you're in love with this grape you want to keep having more
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