While traveling down in Florida, hubby and I discovered the San Sebastian Winery in St Augustine. The winery came into being in 1996, but the grape they use, muscadines, have been used for making commercial fine and port wines dating back to the 1500s. The first winery in what is now the United States was in the St Augustine area.
Muscadines grapes are natural to the southeastern United States including the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, the Carolinas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. The typical muscadine wine is sweet due to vintners traditionally add sugar during the winemaking process.
This wine is balanced to express intense fruit flavor derived from the Noble variety of the Native Muscadine grape. Vintners Red is sure to raise an eyebrow and a second glass. Served slightly chilled this wine is a great complement to any pasta dish as well as for just sitting and relaxing.
And my opinion:
As all of you that have read my past wine reviews know, I love a sweet wine! And this was certainly sweet. The San Sebastian Vintner’s Red smells like grape juice. The taste reminds me of nothing so much as Mogen David red wine, or a glass of Welch’s grape juice.
At $9.99 it is cheap, and sweet, but that is about all it really has going for it.
As always, drink responsibly and please don’t drink and drive.
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