Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
-
Wine Enthusiast
A wine made from dried Moscatel with Sherry characteristics? This is that and more. Aromas of raisin, cinnamon, flowers and caramel are particular for dessert wines. In the mouth, this is fresh and juicy but substantive, with caramel, toffee, coffee and spice flavors running onto a long finish with toffee and chocolate notes. This is ripe and sweet but balanced and delicious.
-
Wine & Spirits
Every note in this wine is sweet: candied figs, caramelized nuts, the fragrant floral scents. The texture is unctuous, the wine best enjoyed in small sips after a copious dinner.
Apart from the classics, we find many regional gems of different styles.
Late harvest wines are probably the easiest to understand. Grapes are picked so late that the sugars build up and residual sugar remains after the fermentation process. Ice wine, a style founded in Germany and there referred to as eiswein, is an extreme late harvest wine, produced from grapes frozen on the vine, and pressed while still frozen, resulting in a higher concentration of sugar. It is becoming a specialty of Canada as well, where it takes on the English name of ice wine.
Vin Santo, literally “holy wine,” is a Tuscan sweet wine made from drying the local white grapes Trebbiano Toscano and Malvasia in the winery and not pressing until somewhere between November and March.
Rutherglen is an historic wine region in northeast Victoria, Australia, famous for its fortified Topaque and Muscat with complex tawny characteristics.
Known more formally as Jerez de la Frontera, Jerez is a city in Andalucía in southwest Spain and the center of the Jerez region and sherry production. Sherry is a mere English corruption of the term Jerez, while in French, Jerez is written, Xérès. Manzanilla is the freshest style of sherry, naturally derived from the seaside town of Sanlúcar de Barrameda.