A Chilean Sweet Viognier Sauvignon

I was surprised to see this Luis Felipe Edwards dessert wine at a 24 hour convenience store. That they mislabeled the price on the promotion poster to below $100 made me have a second look. Even at a little over $100, it looked an interesting enough wine for a try, and so naturally I bought it. There are not many sweet wines made with Viognier and it is not certain (even after looking up their website) whether any of it is nobly rotten. Botrytised character is evident on both nose and palate but that could be from affected Sauvignon Blanc. (In any case this is an unusual combination).

I had it with mooncakes, but the match depends as much upon the sweetness of the mooncakes more than the wine. As for the wine, it was a golden orange tea in colour, with a sweet luscious dried apricot nose. Those characters continued onto the palate with a less apricot dried fruit acidity forming a good backbone giving sterling support. Nice wine and at a good price.