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Estate Chambourcin

Estate Chambourcin Wine Details
Price: $17.50 per bottle

Description: 100% Chambourcin. Distinctive, with earth, cedar and leather notes. Ripe, powerful and concentrated with dark plum and black cherry flavors that ends off with a long spicy finish and well rounded tannins. Bottled August 2004. Drink now through 2009. 40 cases produced.

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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