| | WineMedia: Frog Rock: Growing chambourcin by choice, not necessity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Rick Turner, managing director of Frog Rock Wines, is pleased to be counted among the few Australian grapegrowers harvesting chambourcin and regards his latest release, from the excellent 2002 vintage, as certainly vindicating his faith in the variety. |
 | | While chambourcin has higher levels of tannin than most French-American hybrid varieties, it is obviously fleshier and softer than most Australian dry reds produced from more traditional varieties such as shiraz and cabernet sauvignon. |
 | | The Frog Rock 2002 Chambourcin was produced from a warm, dry vintage that yielded relatively low volumes of intensely flavoured fruit that retained a fine balance of acidity. |
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