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Claret

Claret Wine Details
Price: $15.00 per bottle

Description: Our Claret is 100% Chambourcin. It has intense flavors of vanilla, plum, cranberries, and tart cherries. This wine makes a wonderful accompaniment to a holiday turkey or is great as an aperitif. Serve room temperature or with a slight chill.

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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