1.   Barbera, the most widely planted grape in the Piedmont, has most often been used in California as an anonymous blending grape.

2.   Elsewhere it has always been a secondary blending grape, and was almost never used in roses because of its herbaceous quality.

3.   In California, merlot was mostly a blending grape, like zinfandel.

4.   In other words, it is a blending grape.

5.   In other words, a blending grape.

6.   It has been bottled separately here but has served mostly as a blending grape.

7.   It may be that viognier works better as a blending grape.

8.   Merlot first achieved its reputation as a blending grape.

9.   More often, cabernet franc is dismissed as a blending grape, the less melodious cousin of the regal cabernet sauvignon.

10.   Once, zinfandel was a coarse blending grape.