Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon share similar names and qualities, but distinct characteristics set them apart. Cabernet Franc, a parent variety to Cabernet Sauvignon, as well as Merlot and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may be familiar with the red varietal, a French grape that is a parent to many other red varietals. Cabernet franc is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cabernet Franc sure got around: It’s a parent of four of the other grapes—Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Malbec, and Carménère—used ...

Republican Red Winery today announced it has received three prestigious awards at the 2026 Monterey International Wine ...

In recent years, Cabernet Franc has been stealthily gaining favorable attention among wine enthusiasts and Napa Valley vintners, rising from its former role as an element of Bordeaux blends and moving ...

There is no safer food-wine match than Cabernet Sauvignon with steak. Red wine meets red meat -- strength against strength, tannin versus fat and protein. Cabernet Franc also works with steak. In ...

One of the most important grape varieties in its native France, where it is cultivated on over 90,000 acres, Cabernet Franc is now grown all over the world. At home and around the globe it is used ...

One of my wine goals for this new year is to taste Cabernet Franc from every winery in the state that makes a wine from this red grape. I actually started working on my goal before the end of 2016. A ...

Cabernet franc has long been something of an enigma — once relegated in Bordeaux to a mere blending component, a distant star in the Loire galaxy and treated like a Frankenstein experiment in ...

Cabernet franc is often thought of as sort of a little brother to king cabernet sauvignon. Where one is planted, you’ll typically find the other. It’s this way in its native Bordeaux, and it’s this ...

One night, many hundreds of years ago, the grapevines cabernet franc and sauvignon blanc nuzzled up to each other, somewhere in the Bordeaux region of France, and made a baby. They took the first ...