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Chambourcin

Chambourcin Wine Details
Price: $10.99 per bottle

Description: Another hybrid developed here in the Finger Lakes at Geneva, this was our best seller last year. A wonderful red wine, peppery and herbaceous, much like a Shiraz, with a beautiful deep red/purple color, unoaked with an intense bouquet.

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.
Shiraz:
Alternate name for the french Syrah clone grape grown in Australia and responsible for very big red wines that are not quite as intense in flavor as the french Rhone versions.


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