Red wine blends and the varieties which accompanying this great widely travelled grape of the world, is the red Bordeaux, which is just about what everyone wants to grow. This main grape, being the Cabernet Sauvignon. It is well known that most Cabernet Sauvignon are better with just a little blending of some other grape when added to round out its sometime lean flavours, the other Bordeaux grapes, Merlot and Cabernet Franc, have come along as part to complement this variety.

The red blends can deliver elegance, structure, and a certain debonair style. The classic flavours of the red Bordeaux is blackcurrants and cedarwood - that's Cabernet Sauvignon. It's the most polished traveller possible. However, when the Cabernet Sauvignon is often blended with Sangiovese,the blend is spectacularly.

When Merlot takes over as the main grape in the blend, usually stiffened with a little Cabernet Sauvignon or Cabernet Franc can give the wine a bit more backbone. It makes a softer, more toffeeish wine than Cabernet Sauvignon, with lustre, plummier fruit, but it doesn't usually age as well and can taste dull.

The Cabernet Franc varietal has a more grassier, lighter, more raspberryish flavour than the Cabernet Sauvignon. In a blend it adds perfume and elegance. Then again the number of  varietal combinations such as Shiraz, Grenache, Pinot, Tempranillo, Zinfandel, Mourvedre, Dolcetto, Sangiovese, Nebbiolo, Sangiovese and Barbera can only provide interesting wines of character, taste, depth and quality.