While Merlot is grown throughout the state, it is particularly prominent in Napa, Monterey and Sonoma County.

While the vines, leaves and grapes look very similar, both grapes produce wines with distinct characteristics — Carménère being more strongly flavored with green pepper notes and Merlot having softer fruit with chocolate notes.

While Merlot seemed to thrive in clay and limestone based soils ( such as those of the Right Bank regions of the Gironde estuary ), Cabernet Sauvignon seemed to perform better in the gravel based soil of the Médoc region on the Left Bank.

While the wine can be stored in oak barrels, it often does not absorb oak flavors as well as other varieties ( such as Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon ) so it is often stored in neutral oak or large format barrels.

While the style of Australian Chardonnay is mostly characterized by the mass produced products of the hot Riverland region, the cooler climates of Victoria and Tasmania has been creating more crisp, less oaked wines with lime notes.

While New World Cabernets are characterized as being drinkable earlier than Bordeaux, premium producers such as the Californian cult wines will produce wines that need time to age and could potentially develop for two to three decades.

While Spanish and Algerian wines are also known to have been used for this purpose, top Bordeaux châteaux would use Hermitage to improve their wines, especially in weaker vintages.

While southern Rhône produces relatively few wines where Syrah is in the majority, the proportion of Syrah in the blended wines of this region has been on the rise.

While Asti province became famous around the world thanks to Martini and Rossi, Gancia and Riccadonna which made commercial wines like Asti Spumante, it is now also becoming famous internationally for its classic red wines such as Barbera d ' Asti, Freisa d ' Asti, Grignolino d ' Asti, Bonarda and Ruché di Castagnole Monferrato.

While there are examples of varietal sparklers, such as blanc de blancs ( white of whites ) made from 100 % Chardonnay, most sparkling wines are blends of several grape varieties, vineyards and vintages.

While Crémant can only be used for wines that have been made using the méthode champenoise.

While many top American sparkling wine producers utilize the traditional methods of production, there are distinct differences in their wine making techniques that have a considerable effect on the taste of the wines.

While the majority of sparkling wines are white or rosé, Australia, Italy and Moldova all have a sizable production of red sparkling wines.

While the grapes used to produce port produced in Portugal are strictly regulated by the Instituto do Vinho do Porto, wines from outside this region which describe themselves as port may be made from other varieties.

While the Dom did work tirelessly and successfully to improve the quality and renown of the still wines of Champagne, he did not invent sparkling wine, nor was he the first to make champagne.

While consumers have benefited with top quality Riesling wines being underpriced in comparison with some of the world's other great wines from places like Bordeaux, Burgundy and California, the economic hardship created by the prices has caused some of the smaller Mosel vineyards to go out of business.

While Pliny does not explicitly name the grape responsible for these Pollenzo wines, his description of the wine bears similarities to later descriptions of Nebbiolo-based wines, making this potentially the first notation of wine made from Nebbiolo in the Piedmont region.

While Barolo & Barbaresco tend to be the heaviest and most in need of aging, wines made in the modernist style are becoming more approachable at a young age.

While sparkling wines have been made since 1879, they have not yet established a significant place in Chile's wine portfolio.

While most Chenin blanc is produced as a varietal wine, up to 20 % of Chardonnay and Sauvignon blanc are permitted in wines with the basic Anjou, Saumur, and Touraine designations.

While humans and other organisms generally place less value on future costs / benefits as compared to those in the present, some have shorter time horizons than others and these people tend to be less cooperative.

While it does not bias the OLS coefficient estimates, the standard errors tend to be underestimated ( and the t-scores overestimated ) when the autocorrelations of the errors at low lags are positive.

While unsustainable imbalances may persist for long periods ( cf, Singapore and New Zealand ’ s surpluses and deficits, respectively ), the distortions likely to be caused by large flows of wealth out of one economy and into another tend to become intolerable.

While the X-Men tend to the wounded, Cyclops finally forgives Professor X.

While ecosystem goods have traditionally been recognized as being the basis for things of economic value, ecosystem services tend to be taken for granted.

While k ' stulaami can be born as a random mutation in any t ' skrang line, they tend to congregate into communities filled with their own kind.

While not the exclusive domain of youth, extreme sports tend to have a younger-than-average target demographic.

These " politically neutral " groups tend to avoid global conflicts and view the settlement of inter-human conflict as separate from regard for nature-in direct contradiction to the ecology movement and peace movement which have increasingly close links: While Green Parties and Greenpeace, and groups like the ACTivist Magazine for example, regard ecology, biodiversity and an end to non-human extinction as absolutely basic to peace, the local groups may not, and may see a high degree of global competition and conflict as justifiable if it lets them preserve their own local uniqueness.

While City Streets and other pre-WWII crime melodramas such as Fury ( 1936 ) and You Only Live Once ( 1937 ), both directed by Fritz Lang, are categorized as full-fledged noir in Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward's film noir encyclopedia, other critics tend to describe them as " proto-noir " or in similar terms.

While black-and-white film has no color temperature itself, the silver halide grains themselves tend to be slightly more responsive to blue light, and therefore will have daylight and tungsten speeds-e. g.

While northern fur seal males aggressively select and defend the specific females in their harems, males of southern species of fur seals tend to protect spatial territories, and females are free to choose or switch their mates according to their own preference or social hierarchy.

While broomstick weddings have been associated with gypsies, the sources that make reference to the practice tend to repeat and recycle claims.

While some studies have historically found extremely low weight estimates for Quetzalcoatlus, as low as for a 10-meter individual, a majority of estimates published since the 2000s have been higher, and the tend toward.

Historian Henry Commager wrote that " Even when definitions of terrorism allow for state terrorism, state actions in this area tend to be seen through the prism of war or national self-defense, not terror .” While states may accuse other states of state-sponsored terrorism when they support insurgencies, individuals who accuse their governments of terrorism are seen as radicals, because actions by legitimate governments are not generally seen as illegitimate.

While the generations born before the 1940s tend to use the older terms of Arabic or Persian origin, the younger generations favor new expressions.

While Sunday services in most congregations tend to be spiritual in nature ( as different from theological ), it is not unusual for a part of a church's membership to attend pagan, Buddhist, or other spiritual study or worship groups as an alternative means of worship.

While Campbell refers to heavy batteries requiring a " load-bearing hull " and " cranky, even unseaworthy vessels ", Desmond points out that electric boaters tend to prefer efficient, low-wash hull forms that are more friendly to river banks.

While marginal costs tend to be accordingly low, initial development and construction costs are highly dependent on performance, especially the intended mass, acceleration, and velocity of projectiles.

While cohabitation has been shown to be associated with higher divorce rates, a study indicates that divorce-prone couples tend to first cohabit, and not that cohabitation by itself increases the likelihood of divorce.

While those who have expressive aphasia tend to retain good spoken language comprehension, other types of aphasia can render patients completely unable to understand any language at all, unable to understand any spoken language ( Auditory verbal agnosia ), while still other types preserve language comprehension, but with deficits.

While individuals with expressive aphasia tend to have a good ability to self-monitor their language output ( they " hear what they say " and make corrections ), other types of aphasics can seem entirely unaware of their language deficits.

While switches may learn about topologies at many layers, and forward at one or more layers, they do tend to have common features.

While these measures may not have made Patton popular, they did tend to restore a sense of discipline and unit pride that may have been missing when Fredendall was still in command.

While the " red " parties tend to focus on the adverse effects of capitalism on the working class, the " green " parties tend to focus on the ecological consequences of unrestrained capitalism.