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Wine Details
Price:
$7.99 per bottle
Description:
Made from Vitis Lambrusca grapes. A very fruity wine. Perfect for summer picnics. Light and crisp. Did You Know: Catawba grapes grew in great profusion across the mid Atlantic States 100 years ago. Welch's made extensive use of the fruit. AND,. it was very popular in England, where it was one of the few grapes that could grow at all. Wordsworth was so enamored of it that he wrote a poem in its honor.
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Varietal Definition
Catawba:
This was perhaps the earliest discovered native American grape, growing wild in Ohio and New York valleys, but it has since been surpassed by the Concord as the most widely planted native East Coast grape varietal. It primarily is used to make off-dry or sweet red wines, with a pronounced foxy (a unique aroma/flavor profile variously described as wild and musky) labrusca flavor. A number of producers also utilize this grape to make sparkling wine.
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