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In the seventeenth century in southwestern France, an accidental breeding occurred between a red Cabernet Franc grape plant and a white  Sauvignon Blanc  grape plant and thus was born the most popular grape among American wine drinkers: Cabernet Sauvignon. Cabernet Sauvignon is a red grape varietal known for its thick, durable skin, and the vine’s resistance to the elements. After the birth of the grape, the Cabernet Sauvignon varietal began to be adopted in parts of France by winemakers searching for more durable plants that were relatively easy to grow, and the grape found its champion in the region of Bordeaux. As the Bordeaux wine blend evolved into one of the world’s most famous and highly coveted wines, the Bordeaux brand spread across the globe, and with the press for Bordeaux went the Cabernet Sauvignon grape. As the name of the grape spread, and more people around the world began to grow it, many took to calling Cabernet Sauvignon the great colonizer, as i...

12 Awesome Things About Cabernet Cabernet is the most planted wine grape in the world (~720,000 acres) After the detailed work at University of Adelaide by Kym Anderson and his team in 2013, we now know that Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot are the two most planted wine varieties in the world. Cabernet has its own official holiday–the Thursday before Labor Day in the U.S. The first official #CabernetDay started in 2010 when marketing guru, Rick Bakas gathered a group of wineries in Napa (he was working for St. Supéry at the time) to promote it on social media. So, remember to pick up a bottle of Cabernet the week before Labor Day (US)! Cabernet Sauvignon is the offspring of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc Dr. Carole Meredith and her research group at UC Davis were the first to use DNA typing to identify the parentage of different wine varieties. It wasn’t until 1996 that the world learned Cabernet Sauvignon was indeed the child of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blan...