Grenache/Garnacha: France/Spain

When we speak of the French grenache, that heat-loving grape of the Mediterranean basin, we tend to append, rather

snobbishly, "or, as they call it in Spain, garnacha." The truth, however, is that grenache/garnacha almost assuredly is native to the eastern regions of Spain, in Aragon and Cataluña, and that even in Medieval times was planted in Roussillon…