All About Hybrid Red Wine - Marquette

Check out what makes Marquette, one of what’s known as cold-climate or hybrid grapes, so special! Have you tasted local Iowa Marquette wine yet? If not, you don’t know what you’ve been missing. Read on, readers! ,

Marquette Wine — Sounds like: Mar-Ket

If you like Zinfandel wines, then you would LOVE Marquette wines!

Looks Like: Black color, small to medium sized berry.

Smells Like: Smoky, earthy aromas of leather and dark fruits.

Tastes Like: Dark berries, pepper, plum, tobacco, leather, and spice. Marquette wines are typically made as dry to off-dry in sweetness.

The Marquette grape is a cold hardy, red wine grape variety with excellent disease resistance developed by the University of Minnesota and released in 2006. Marquette as a wine grape has high sugar and moderate acidity, making it very manageable in the winery. Finished wines are complex, with attractive ruby color, pronounced tannins, and desirable notes of cherry, berry, black pepper, and spice on both nose and palate.

Want to taste some Marquette wines yourself?

Ask for Iowa wines at your local grocery store, or next time you dine out ask your server for some Iowa Marquette wine with your meal!

Check out the Iowa Marquette wines available to be shipped directly to your home.