The world's main red wine varieties

With hundreds of varieties of red wine grapes, there is as much red wine information to learn about as there are red grapes planted in all corners of the globe. That being said, you’ll likely encounter only a handful of these grapes most often. In our red wine basics section, we cover the flavor profiles and regions of the most common red wine grapes.

You can certainly choose to discover more beyond this short list, but for a quick and easy red wine 101, the following will fit the bill. Click here to read about them in this month's Sommelier article.