Dominio IV in Oregon has made a Viognier/Syrah blend in which Viognier is the majority grape.
I miss Chianti with Malvasia or Trebbiano blended in. It made many of them a better casual wine, and really beat the present trend of making the wine more approachable by using over-ripe grapes and oak.
Tandem Cellars Peloton. Blend varied from year to year, but was assortment of Carignan, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Sangiovese, Zinfandel, Gewurztraminer, Syrah and Pinot Meunier depending on the year.
Wonderwerk makes (made?) a blend called Free Your Mind - 50% carignan and 50% riesling. Served chilled and mighty tasty. Though still, a guilty pleasure like Bornard’s pet nats can be.
2014 Gen del Alma Otra Piel- Argentina, Mendoza, Valle de Uco, Gualtallary (1/24/2018)
– decanted approximately 45 minutes before initial taste –
– tasted non-blind over a couple hours –
– 60% Cabernet Franc, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Pinot Noir –
NOSE: “dark”; strong cigar wrapper note; juicy tobacco and leather; a touch musky; moderately expressive.
BODY: medium bodied.
TASTE: medium+ to high acidity; juicy purple berries with hints of red berries; ripe fruit; a touch jammy; very interesting; a little bit of the Cab. Franc pyrazines; tobacco; 14.5% alc.; this is very excellent and interesting. Probably the best Argentinian wine I’ve ever had (granted, not that many). Excellent QPR @ $27.
A local semi-commercial winery made a 50/50 Cabernet Sauvgnon/Pinot Noir from their young vines. Enjoyable easy drinking early drinker.
Cab/Syrah is made all over the world. It’s a natural. We’d see more of it in the U.S. if we weren’t so stuck on varietal wines.
Pinot Noir is a great blending grape and can play pretty much the same role as Grenache. It just doesn’t make financial sense in most cases. Sangiovese fits the role well, too (if you don’t over-extract it).
Teutonic makes an 80% Gewurtztraminer/20% Pinot Noir as a light drinking red.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Dirty & Rowdy & Enfield’s Mourvèdre-Pinot Noir blend. It’s really nice, but took years to enter a drinking window. It’s still pretty youthful.