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What is the bloody point – why make a red Chardonnay? Especially as Chardonnay is a white grape and to get the colour you use Chambourcin grapes…

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“We picked the Chambourcin (grapes) and pressed it then we picked the Chardonnay (grapes) and pressed it and then put the Chambourcin juice on the Chardonnay skin to get the (red) color,” Pack said. “Winemakers make white merlot (which is typically a red wine) by not leaving the juice on the skins. We just reverse that process to get the red Chardonnay…

Chardonnay Rosso is a response to market demand, he said. Combining the red and white (grapes) to make the Chardonnay gives it a “unique” taste that offers a new choice to wine drinkers, he said. “Another reason we made it is that most people are switching from white to red wines and we wanted to be in the middle of that,” Pack said. Multiple cases of the wine have already been sold as “futures,” he said. People want to buy the wine in advance because they are afraid it will sell out.”