12 COMMENTS

1. Un-effing beliveable!

   Congrats Marc!

2. Congrats Marc. Actually my wife and I, sit at 1032 and counting 🙂 We have submitted our count to be officially recognized as such 🙂

3. Wow, this is impressive! Congratulations!

   Is it this many without any of the synonyms?

4. Hello Barbara Houston,in answering your comment from March 12.
   they are indeed different varieties. The list normally contains no synonyms. Each variety appears only once. Mistakes are possible, however. At the moment I am checking the entire list to select the monocépage, to state the percentage of the various varieties, etc.
   For example, the Wine Century club allows you to tick the different grape varieties in your list for a wine such as the Chateauneuf du Pape. Traditionally, 13 grape varieties are allowed (8 blue and 5 white). Today, mainly grenache, cinsault, mourvèdre, syrah, muscardin, counoise, clairette and bourboulenc are used. The other grape varieties are vaccarèse, terret noir, roussanne, picpoul and picardan.
   The Boisrenard wine from the domaine Beaurenard is an exceptional blend of ALL THESE varieties. (And then also a very nice wine!!) http://www.beaurenard.com
   For example, I mentioned the Brun Argenté (= Vaccarèse), the Counoise and the Muscardin grape in my list after drinking this wine.
   I drank the rest as monocépage or in another blend.
   For another wine like the “Cento Uve” from Giribaldi in which according to the count of ( https://talk-a-vino.com ) 138 different grape varieties were blended, I started looking for monocépage wines of the mentioned varieties or other blends (with a higher percentage of the respective variety).
   One hundred and twenty-seven I have found, drunk or tasted.
   are missing: the Catarrato Nero, the Bianchetta Veronese and the Corarea.
   This way you have an impression of how I work.

5. Hi Braes, I didn’t realize you replied to me… thank you.
   Yes, I get how you work it because I do similar, whenever I can. Before checking off my list, I check every synonym as much as possible, Jancis Robinson’s “Wine Grape…” is my main reference but since it’s 12 years old, I research other sites as I see a need. I have 517 on my list now but since hitting 350, it’s been very hard to find new grapes. Did you have to travel to get some of the grapes on your list? Feel free to email me directly at mieuxtan@gmail.com.

6. The primary source we use is VIVC.DE, aka, Vitis International Variety Catalogue. It shows all synonyms. I use it every time to check to see if there is a duplicate or varied name. We get some new Varietals by traveling. Last big batch was about a dozen, cold hardy hybrids, visiting Nova Scotia. Mostly we order wine from Wine shops from all over the Country. Plus, when friends or family visit Europe, we will order Wine ahead of time, and have it shipped to their Hotel, for them to pick up and bring back to the U.S. for us. James Suckling hosted an International Wine tasting event in SF in January. We picked up about 10 new Varietals at that event.

7. Awesome Marc, congratulations, can you share the countries that you had the most varieties (I am sure Italy is one of them)

8. Hello,

   Can someone please offer some direction? I submitted my initial 100 varietal membership application in February. That was followed in April by my Dopple application. I submitted both via the site by uploading and by saving both applications and attaching them to a direct email. I’ve yet to receive any notification. Is the organization still active?

9. Hi!
   I just discovered this group and I’d like to take a good ole fashioned shot at hitting the 100 goal, but I haven’t seen much recent activity. Is this still an active group?

10. Hi, Margaret and Darryl, as your comments suggest, this group has mostly faded away over the past few years. It’s been several years since any new certificates have been issued (as far as I know; I’m waiting for a couple and my daughter never received her initial one). At least one person indicated that he was going to reach out to the originator of the group to see if he could help revitalize things, but I don’t see any movement. I still check in every few months but nothing much happens, except for new acknowledgments of the very top performers. As a result, I’ve stopped referring new people to the group. It’s a shame, really. It was such a great idea and it’s sad to see it languish.

11. From one “Giribaldi Cento Uve ” wine to hundred and one Single Varietal Wines……
    Found, Drunk and and enjoyed

    Hello Barbara Houston, a belated reply from me to your message of January 10, 2025.
    The coronavirus pandemic and the inability to travel led to a resurgence in online wine purchases… and especially in the willingness to accept small orders of two or three bottles. Afterward, the various tasting events started up again.
    In Belgium, France, the UK, Germany, Italy, and Austria… we have freely accessible public tastings of sometimes more than 100 wineries and 200 or 300 wines or more.
    Many varietals are European, hence the reason.
    This week I started with X (Twitter). Without any social media experience (I’m 74).
    My intention is to trace the composition of the blend of that renowned “Giribaldi Cento Uve” wine, as far as I know, back to…
    one hundred and one single varietal wines that I’ve drunk over the years. And then the Leth 200 Wine, the De Long’s Wine Grape Varietal Table… We’ll see….alive and well
    I’ll post this on the WineCenturyClub blog and send it to your email address.
    Marc Braes @WineMillenary

12. Hello Marc Braes. I have researched the Leth Simply Wow Wine in great detail. If you provide me some contact information, I’ll send you “my accounting” of the grapes listed.

    I have used the VIVC.de as my definitive data source for validating the existence of Varietals, and to ascertain, if any synonyms exist.

    Regards,

    Chris Hamm @WineMillenary

    ** James Suckling hosts an annual tasting event in the States. One in Miami, one in New York, and one in San Francisco. Usually about 200+ International Wineries and roughly 350 – 400 International Wines. We have tickets to the March 2026 event.