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Chambourcin

Chambourcin Wine Details
Price: $12.00 per bottle

Description: A deep red, this hybrid has been blended with our neighbour’s Baco Noir, capable of enhancing heavier sauces and partnering with marbled beef. A lightly-oaked pleasing addition to a backyard barbecue and fine pepper steak alike.

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.
Baco Noir:
BA french-american hybrid grape used to make an intense red wine regarded by some as a good substitute for Cabernet Sauvignon . Capable of aging, its origins trace to the Folle Blanche and a native American strain of grape. Extensively grown in the cool northern regions of N. America.


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