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Wine Details
Price:
$35.00 per bottle
Description:
I continue to be amazed with Charbono! BORN to be WILD! Recently, Slow Foods held a Charbono Summit at the Silverado Resort in Napa. Six producers showcased their version of Charbono. With one exception all were excellent wines and I felt this tasting accurately benchmarked Charbono’s varietal characteristics. Truly rare, there are 81 acres in California, 31 in Napa, and 21 in Calistoga of which 9 acres have been grown by Frediani since around prohibition. If you enjoyed our 2001 (Silver Medal, S.F. Chron & Dallas Morning News, St. Helena Star Wine of the Week), you will equally enjoy our 2003 (Gold Medal Dallas Morning News). Sorry, no 2002 produced. Tightly packed with deep purple colors; open a day prior to drinking or aggressively decant to release its fresh grape, tar, blueberry, lavender, earth and the clove aromas so typical of Frediani Charbono. It finishes a bit rougher than our 2001. Drinkable now (the brave souls who do so are easily identifed by their purple teeth), it will soften and improve significantly over the next 5-10 years.
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Varietal Definition
Charbono:
Red-wine creating grape grown on small acreages in California. Some have argued that it is a clone of the now sparsely grown Douce Noir grape found in the Savoie region of France, better known as the Dolcetto grape widely grown in northern Italy
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