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Wine Details
Price:
$7.00 per bottle
Description:
2 Silver, 2 Bronze Medals. Grape Varieties: A blend of a native Catawba and a French-American hybrid named Rougeon. A unique marriage that has been happily together since 1995. Tasting Notes: Come on wine people...LOOSEN UP! Have fun with this zesty, fruity, pleasin' sweeter wine. Number one in sales and immensely popular. Food Pairings: Wings, pizza, mozzarella sticks and friends. Adult smoothie: one pint of red raspberry sherbet and one-half bottle of Red Zeppelin blended together.
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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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Rougeon:
The Rougeon grape is a French-American hybrid with hardy vines that produce black grapes in medium-sized, compact clusters. It is used in blending to provide a rich red color.
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