Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Muscadine grapes again

I had blogged about wines made from muscadine grapes tasted at the 2010 Wine Fair before. As I related in the post last week, I had got to learn more about them in this year's Wine Fair. Muscadine is a large family of grapes, with 126 cultivars listed in the VIVC database. Scuppernong, which I'm sure I had tasted in 2010, was only one of those 126.

This year I tasted another 2 white and one red cultivars; the white ones being Carlos and Magnolia and the red one being Noble. To be sure, they all had their characteristic foxy, musky notes, and being rather unfamiliar with the special nuances of this species, one finds that they are very much similar. Nonetheless (grape collecting apart) it remained an interesting and instructive experience.

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