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Chambourcin

Chambourcin Wine Details
Price: $22.00 per bottle

Description: Aged in oak for one year and blended with Petit Verdot (80%/20%). The result is a beautiful inky blue and purple wine with a fruit forward palate, balanced by a silky oak finish.

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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