Winery GirouardClarksburg Red
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The Clarksburg Red of the Winery Girouard is in the top 0 of wines of Oklahoma.
Details and technical informations about Winery Girouard's Clarksburg Red.
Discover the grape variety: Couderc 13
A direct producer hybrid obtained by Georges Couderc by crossing Vitis Lincecumii (Buckley) with 162-5 Couderc, the latter having 3/4 blood of Vinifera-Rupestris. Today, like most hybrids, it has practically disappeared. It can still be found in a mixture in very old vineyards, the photographs below were taken in the Ardèche, on the border with the Gard, north of Saint Ambroix.
Informations about the Winery Girouard
The Winery Girouard is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 7 wines for sale in the of Oklahoma to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Oklahoma
Oklahoma is a state in the SouthCentral United States, bordered by Texas to the south and Kansas to the North. The state covers nearly 180,000 km² (70,000 square miles) between latitudes 33° and 37°. Oklahoma is not an obvious place for quality viticulture, but grapes have been grown here since the days of the first settlers. Unusually, when Oklahoma joined the union in 1907, Prohibition was already Part of its constitution; it remained in effect until 1959, despite widespread smuggling, which led to the collapse of the state's well-developed wine industry.
The word of the wine: Bitter
Normal for certain young red wines rich in tannin, bitterness is in other cases a defect due to a bacterial disease.
