Listing Grape Varieties beginning with P:
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| Variety | Colour | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Parraleta | Red | Parraleta is a low-yielding, late-ripening, delicately scented native grape variety to Somontano tha... |
| Pecorino | White | The Pecorino grape reputedly was brought back from the brink of extinction. One story is that some e... |
| Pedro Ximenez | White | Pedro Ximénez (also known as PX and many other variations) is the name of a white grape grown i... |
| Perricone | Red | Perricone, which sounds like it might be a faded porn star, or Neuropeptide Firming Moisturiser or a... |
| Petit Courbu | White | A native of the Basque country where it features in the whites of Irouleguy and Txacoli, Petit Courb... |
| Petit Manseng | White | Manseng (or Manseng Noir) is a wine grape variety of Basque origins that is grown primarily in South... |
| Petit Rouge | Red | Petit Rouge is a red grape variety that grows in the tiny mountain enclave of Valle d'Aosta. On its... |
| Petit Verdot | Red | Petit Verdot is a principally used in classic Bordeaux blends. Like Carmenere it ripens much later t... |
| Petite Arvine | White | Petite Arvine is capable of making wonderful crisp white wines that reflect its sense of place. Nati... |
| Picpoul | White | ‘A good Picpoul’, he expounds authoritatively, ‘should be crisp and full at the sa... |
| Piedirosso | Red | The Piedirosso also called Per'e Palummo, because the original biotype to maturation has a red colou... |
| Pignatello | Red | See Perricone... |
| Pineau d'Aunis | Red | A red grape variety once widely grown in the Loire Valley, particularly around Tours, Anjou and Saum... |
| Pinenc | Red | Also known as Fer, as well as Mansois (in Marcillac), Braucol or Brocol (in Gaillac), the grape is q... |
| Pinot Bianco | White | Pinot Bianco, as Jancis Robinson explains, is part of the “vast family of vaguely Burgundian v... |
| Pinot Blanc | White | Pinot Bianco, as Jancis Robinson explains, is part of the "vast family of vaguely Burgundian vines w... |
| Pinot Grigio | White | The sleep of reason, wrote Goya, brings forth fools. As far as much Pinot Grigio is concerned the se... |
| Pinot Gris | White | The strange case of the flipside of Pinot Grigio's Mr Hyde, the gaunt bulimic grape versus the lusci... |
| Pinot Meunier | Red | Pinot Meunier, like Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris, is one of the many mutations of Pinot Noir. The name... |
| Pinot Nero | Red | Pinot Nero is Pinot Noir by another (Italian name). Pinot in Italy lives mainly in Alto-Adige (where... |
| Pinot Noir | Red | Its flavours, they're just the most haunting and brilliant and thrilling and subtle and... ancien... |
| Pinotage | Red | Pinotage is a grape variety that was created in South Africa in 1925 by Abraham Izak Perold, the fir... |
| Piquepoul Blanc | White | ‘A good Picpoul’, he expounds authoritatively, ‘should be crisp and full at the sa... |
| Piquepoul Noir | Red | Red wines produced from Picpoul noir (or Piquepoul Noir) are high in alcohol, richly scented, but h... |
| Ploussard | Red | Grown in Jura since the 13th century Poulsard’s names are legion: ploussard, peloussard, pulsa... |
| Primitivo | Red | The first documented use of the term Primitivo appears in Italian governmental publications of the 1... |
| Prosecco | White | Dry, lemony, and bubbling Prosecco is Italy's answer to refreshing, well-made, sparkling wine. Creat... |
| Prugnolo Gentile | Red | One of many synonyms of Sangiovese or, to be more precise, the Prugnolo (plummy) and Gentile (local... |
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