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Chambourcin

Chambourcin Wine Details
Price: $16.00 per bottle

Description: Dark and clear with a black cherry color, the nose is new oak, spice, black pepper and sweet Bing cherry. This wine has nice viscosity, with pepper initially, flowing into black cherry. Sweet anise mid-palate. Not very tannic, but bright and fresh with acidity. Nice zip on the finish. Great with pasta, chicken and pork.

Varietal Definition
Chambourcin:
A french-american hybrid used to make red wines with fruity flavors and some herbaceousness. Grown in the cooler regions of Eastern U.S. and Canada. Decreasing acreages also found in Europe; due to stringent European Union rules these varieties cannot be blended with traditional varieties.


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