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Wine Details
Price:
$7.99 per bottle
Description:
Johnson Estate Ives Noir is a delightfully semi-sweet wine with a brilliant garnet red color and a mellow yet very distinctive fruit character that compares very favorably to a Lambrusco. One of the very few Ives varietals now available, Johnson Estate Ives Noir will be found pleasing by almost all.
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Varietal Definition
Lambrusco:
Famous for the 'frizzante', semi sweet wines found in 1 litre screw cap bottles, this grape originates near Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Central Italy. Much maligned by 'serious' wine drinkers, it produces a fresh, semi sweet, fruit driven wine usually low in alcohol and quite inexpensive. Very popular in the United States.
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Ives Noir:
Ives is a black grape of the Vitis labrusca type and is used in red wines. It is very subject to damage by the air pollutant, ozone, and is hence often relatively lacking invigor and productivity. Vigor and productivity are often im-proved when Ives is grafted on a vigorous rootstock.Still widely grown in Brazil and other hot, humid, fungus prone regions of South America. Also found in Australia where it has the synonym name Kittredge.
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