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Wine Details
Price:
$22.00 per bottle
Description:
This was a wonderful year for producing a late-harvest Riesling. A bloom of botrytis early in the harvest season flourished, allowing for picking at optimum characters rather than racing to beat an oncoming storm.
For increased color, flavor and sugar extraction we cold-soaked the juice on its skins for 24 hours. The result is a golden dessert wine with intense apricot, honey and peach intermingled with complex citrus and tart apple fruit. Still sweet, but lighter in style than past vintages, this wine is superbly balanced and is the perfect compliment to most fruity desserts. Serve chilled.
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Varietal Definition
Riesling:
On the sweeter end of the spectrum, some of the best dessert wines should give thanks to the Riesling varietal. Riesling is known for its complementary nature of combining balanced acidity with sugar. Rieslings are made dry to sweet, but it is the sweet style Riesling that brought about its popularity in the United States. With the rise of spicy sauces, marinades and dips to flavor our meal, Riesling plays a part in taking off the edge of the heat. Riesling is known for a number of signature characteristics: floral, citrus and pear. Riesling has peaked in California with 11,000 acres planted. Today, Monterey County’s cool-climate areas and its long growing season produce good amounts of character for the Riesling grape. Outside of
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