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
Fruity, often sweet reds with a dense purple robe, light tannins and preserved acidity. Intense aromas of fresh grape, strawberry, raspberry and the characteristic foxy note (musky animal typical of Vitis labrusca). Often vinified sweet or semi-sweet. Pillar of American viticulture in the 19th century, today mainly used for grape juice, Welch's jelly and American kosher wine. Vitis labrusca hybrid selected around 1840 by Ephraim Bull in Concord, Massachusetts.
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 wine region of Missouri
American Midwest vineyard, cradle of the first US AVA (Augusta, 1980, 8 months before Napa). Signature Norton/Cynthiana, the state's official grape and a native pride: dense, deeply coloured reds with signature notes of blackberry, candied black cherry, plum, coffee, leather and spices, firm tannins - fleshy age-worthy wines, robust against the humid continental climate. Also off-dry Vidal Blanc (citrus, honey), fruity red Chambourcin, peppery Cabernet Franc, lively Seyval Blanc.
The word of the wine: Heart-to-heart
Small stem from a quick bud that is removed during thinning.
