Have you heard of this wine?

[winetaster]

Today while visiting my sister in laws store a customer asked her if she had ever heard of this wine, now i may be mangeling the name but she said it was a house wine at an Italian restaurant she used to go to. She called it Kukamunga. Anyone hear of it?
Winetaster

[winoweenie]

Welcome to the board. Probably either the Chianti or burgandy jug wines from the New York winery Cucamonga. WW


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[Kcwhippet]

Isn't the NY winery Canandaigua? If I remember my CA history, Cucamonga was the area where about the first grapes were planted by the friars when they were building their string of missions. There may still be some wine made from Cucamonga grapes, but I don't believe I can recall any winery or brand of that name.

[Auburnwine]

"The wine made here is the most celebrated in the country, on account of its peculiar, rich flavor, being some twenty per cent above Los Angeles wine in saccharine matter."

"Cucamonga" by John Quincy Adams Warren.
The American Stock Journal, (July, 1861).

[I guess y'all missed Warren's wine column in the American Stock Journal. "Saccharine matter" -- a term I will henceforth use in wine notes.]

There are still wineries there. Joseph Filippi, for example.

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[Thomas]

Saccharine matter--that is lovely.

[winetaster]

Thanks for the welcome, the replies and oh yeah all the humour!

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[winoweenie]

Rite on KC was so focused on spelling Cuco close I lost my way. WW

[Kcwhippet]

I think I found a wine made, in part, from Cucamonga grapes - REDS from Patrick Campbell.