Serious cabernet-shiraz blends do exist, but they are in the distinct minority among high-end wines.

It has an excellent selection of high-end Hungarian wines - ask the staff to recommend a bottle.

An inventive menu, high-end wines and the right kind of attitude combine to create a restaurant that succeeds on nearly every level.

In recent times, there has also been an increase in the production and marketing of single quinta vintage port as high-end wines.

Wine list: Large and wide-ranging with a few bargains among the high-end wines.

There's more hard liquor and less high-end wine; more big groups and fewer singles.

"It's a high-end wine that is going to be exclusive to get," he said.

The manual method is still used for some high-end wines.

Wine list: Interesting high-end Italian wines at fair prices.

Although it got a rather late start compared with California, Oregon now has more than 120 wineries, almost all of them producing exclusively high-end wines.