Re: Baco Noir taste?

That's tough to say, but my experience with Baco Noir tells me that it is _never_ a fruit bomb type of wine. Rather, it is closer to Pinot Noir or Chianti - which are extremely different from Cabernet or Syrah.

Of course you may have simply gotten a bad bottle of wine, and that's the reason you didn't like it. Hard to tell without actually tasting it myself.

Tom S

Is baco noir a pure vinifera?

Sorry to correct you, but baco noir is indeed a french hybrid, made by Baco by crossing vitis riparia and the folle blanche variety of vinifera.

It is also not true that there is no relation between french hybrids and labrusca (spelling please), many french hybrids are made by crossing labrusca with a vinifera variety.

Mike

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Baco Noir is a French-American hybrid developed by French hybridizer Maurice Baco by crossing Folle Blanche with a native American vine. As Lambrusca and not Vinefra are native to North America the term FOXY most certainly does apply.

That last sentence is especially wrong. If by "same family" he's referring to taxonomic classification, then all vitis (vinifera, labrusca, etc.) are within the same genus -- so by definition within the same family.

Mark Lipton

Larry Stumpf, S. Ontario, Canada

It must have been a bad bottle. Henry of Pelham produces decent VQA wines, and I have had his Baco Noir often. They also have to pass the VQA taste tests for each varietal before they get certification.

Here is one review of their basic 2001 Baco Noir

From the same source, a review of their signature 2000 Baco Noir Reserve:

Dennis Windsor, Ontario

Baco Noir is from riparia, not lambrusca, so not necessarily 'foxy'

Right, right, right!!

Learn something new every day but got 2 today if you include discovering the proper spelling of vitis labrusca.

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Baco Noir commonly does have a raspberry taste. There are very good examples at many Ontario wineries. Baco noir is vinifera (Folle blanche) x riparia variey (no relation to Labrusca not Lambrusca as you have been putting) which puts it in the cateogory or French hybrids. It is an aquired taste.