Chambourcin
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Chambourcin ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a variety of grapevine belonging to the Vitis genus in the flowering plant family Vitaceae. It is a French-American interspecific hybrid grape 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, V. riparia Michx., V. rupestris Scheele, and V. vinifera.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The hybrid was produced by Joannes Seyve who often used Seibel hybrids produced in the 1860s. The grape has only been available since 1963; it has a good resistance to fungal disease, and is one of the parents of the new disease resistant variety, Regent, 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Chambourcin wineEdit
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 Template:Convert to bring out the flavour but some Chambourcin wines have such a strong flavour that it is recommended that they be served chilled.<ref>BBQ Red Wine - http://www.sailfishcove.co.nz/product/bbq-red/</ref>
Wine regionsEdit
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, B.C., Canada; several counties in Virginia; 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 AVA<ref>Mississippi Delta AVA</ref>Template:Circular reference; [[Missouri[Augusta AVA] Missouri]]; south-central Kansas; Norman Oklahoma; New Zealand's Northland Region;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the Hunter Valley Region of New South Wales and other warm, humid regions in Australia; also in France and Portugal.