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Illinois Cellars Blush

Illinois Cellars Blush Wine Details
Price: $5.99 per bottle

Description: Illinois Cellars Blush is a wine made from "A Blend of Traminette and St. Vincent", with grapes grown entirely in our vineyards in Carrollton, Il. Traminette is a superb descendent of the world renown Gewurtztraminer and Johanes Seyve, developed at the University of Illinois in 1965. It is the a perfect match for all cuisines with sweet or spicy sauces. Illinois Cellars Blush is a soft, refreshing, medium dry rose wine with flavors of red berries, pear, honey and elderflowers. It makes a great sipping wine or goes great with your favorite gourmet sandwich.

Varietal Definition
Vincent:
This variety has high acidity, when fermented it produces a well-balanced dry red table wine. The wine has a deep blue-red color when young, but when aged the blue pigment is deposited & the wine becomes quite stable.
Traminette:
'Traminette' is a late mid-season white wine grape which produces wine with pronounced varietal character likened to one of its parents, 'Gewürztraminer'. 'Traminette' is distinguished by its superior wine quality combined with good productivity, partial resistance to several fungal diseases, and cold hardiness superior to its acclaimed parent, 'Gewürztraminer'.


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