Chambourcin

 ( White Wine Grape Varieties ) 

Chambourcin () is a variety of grapevine belonging to the Vitis genus in the flowering plant family Vitaceae. It is a France-Americas interspecific hybrid grapes variety used for making wine. Its parentage is uncertain, but genetic studies show it likely includes several North American Vitis species in its background including: V. berlandieri Planch., V. labrusca L., V. lincecumii Buckley, Vitis riparia Michx., V. rupestris Scheele, and Vitis vinifera. The hybrid was produced by Joannes Seyve who often used Seibel grapes hybrids produced in the 1860s. The grape has only been available since 1963; it has a good resistance to Fungus disease, and is one of the parents of the new disease resistant variety, Regent grape, which is increasing in popularity among German grape growers.

Chambourcin is considered a very productive grape with crop yields reported ranging from 11.1 tons per hectare to 17.3 tons per hectare in a study performed by Ohio State University.

---

Chambourcin wine The grape produces a deep-colored and aromatic wine. It can be made into a dry style or one with a moderate residual sugar level. Chambourcin is a teinturier, a grape whose juice is pink or red rather than clear like most red vitis vinifera cultivars.

The red juice fermented over the red skins can produce a very strongly flavoured wine. Most red wines are served at cellar temperature of to bring out the flavour but some Chambourcin wines have such a strong flavour that it is recommended that they be served chilled.BBQ Red Wine - http://www.sailfishcove.co.nz/product/bbq-red/

---

Wine regions Chambourcin has been planted widely in the mid-Atlantic region of North America, particularly in such states as New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. It is also grown in Harrow and Ruthven, Ontario, and in Kelowna, Canada; several counties in Virginia wine; Frederick, Washington, Harford, Prince George's County, Maryland, Calvert County, Maryland, and St. Mary's County, Maryland; Kent County, Delaware; Monroe County, Indiana; Daviess County, Kentucky; in the Ohio River Valley AVA Ohio; in the Lake Erie AVA of Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania; Greenbrier, Calhoun, Roane, and Mineral counties in West Virginia; Allegan County, Michigan; the Shawnee Hills AVA of southern Illinois; the Yadkin Valley and Haw River Valley of North Carolina; Western Tennessee in the Mississippi Delta AVAMississippi Delta AVA; [Missouri[Augusta Missouri]]; south-central Kansas; Norman Oklahoma; New Zealand's Northland Region; the Hunter Valley Region of New South Wales and other warm, humid regions in Australia; also in France and Portugal.