1.   An unusually sunny summer and late picking produced cabernet sauvignon grapes with very high tannin content.

2.   Cheval Blanc, situated on the same gravelly soil as Figeac, makes all its wine from cabernet franc grapes.

3.   Chinon, a red from the Loire Valley made from the cabernet franc grape, is popular in Paris but little known here.

4.   Chinon and Bourgueil are red wines made from the cabernet franc grape.

5.   In this country, the cabernet franc grape is steadily shedding its secondary role.

6.   Most Loire reds are made from the cabernet franc grape.

7.   The best cabernet grapes are said to come from a special part of the region known as the Rutherford Bench.

8.   The cabernet franc grape arrived in the Loire Valley over a thousand years ago.

9.   The cabernet sauvignon grape has the needed time to ripen here as it does nowhere else in New York.

10.   Which is pretty much what the best cabernet grapes do.