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Nouveau

Nouveau Wine Details
Price: $9.99 per bottle

Description: Imagine a light and fruity dry red wine with flavors reminiscent of candied strawberries and cherries. ..Sound appealing? Johnson Estate is set to release the 2006 Nouveau! Produced from select hand picked Marechal Foch grapes, Nouveau is ready to drink now. Made using the traditional Beaujolais Nouveau technique of Carbonic Maceration, whole clusters of grapes are allowed to ferment from the inside out producing an easy to drink wine with pronounced fruit. Nouveau is great with your holiday meals of ham, turkey, or fish (especially Lake Erie Perch). Order a bottle today, we will begin shipping them out November 3rd. Only 40 cases are available.

Varietal Definition
Marechal Foch:
A french-american hybrid grape, with french Alsace Gamay origins, noted for producing deeply colored and strongly varietal wines considered by some to have a "Burgundian" character. Also known under the name Foch.


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