This is a dessert wine made from raisined Riesling grapes and it comes from New Zealand. It is an unconventional introduction, but although I have blogged about Vin santo and PX wines, there is hardly mention of the fact the grapes are dried before vinification. There are many different types of raisined grape wines, most of which are sweet. The exception to the rule is Amarone which needs another tidbit.
This is quite a nice wine and it's been well appreciated by the judges at the Decanted Awards as the stickers show. The wine was a golden tea colour with a sweet luscious nose. What was a little surprising was that there were notes normally associated with botrytis infection, which should not be present in raisined wines. It was sweet and luscious on the palate, with notes of dried apricot and its acidity appearing just before swallowing, and which linger onto a long balanced finished. Nice!
This is quite a nice wine and it's been well appreciated by the judges at the Decanted Awards as the stickers show. The wine was a golden tea colour with a sweet luscious nose. What was a little surprising was that there were notes normally associated with botrytis infection, which should not be present in raisined wines. It was sweet and luscious on the palate, with notes of dried apricot and its acidity appearing just before swallowing, and which linger onto a long balanced finished. Nice!
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