Winery St. JamesVelvet Red Sweet
Sweet wine
This wine is composed of 100% of the grape variety Concord.
This wine generally goes well with
The Velvet Red Sweet of the Winery St. James is in the top 5 of wines of Missouri.
Details and technical informations about Winery St. James's Velvet Red Sweet.
Discover the grape variety: Concord
It is the result of a seedling planted in the United States, around 1840, recovered near the Concord River, a small river located east of Massachusetts. According to genetic analysis, it is an interspecific cross between the catawba and a vitis labrusca. Concord was for a long time the main variety cultivated in North America. It was introduced into Europe at the beginning of the 19th century, in France at the beginning of the phylloxera crisis, but was not widely propagated. It could be found in the Valleraugue region (Gard) at the foot of Mont Aigoual, in the Ardèche (our photos), etc. Today, it exists only as an isolated strain that can sometimes be found on the edge of a slope, which was our case. Through various and numerous crosses, it has been used to obtain some rootstocks and direct producer hybrids, which have now almost all disappeared.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Velvet Red Sweet from Winery St. James are 2012, 0, 2015, 2014
Informations about the Winery St. James
The Winery St. James is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 54 wines for sale in the of Missouri to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The word of the wine: Drawing (liqueur de)
In champagne and sparkling wines of traditional method, addition to the wine, at the time of bottling (tirage) of sugars and yeasts dissolved in wine. These components will provoke the second fermentation in the bottle leading to the formation of carbon dioxide bubbles.
