Winemaker Notes
Deep amber color with toffee shades, intense dried fruit aromas such as raisins, honey and butter caramel of mineral character. Full and velvety mouth with a sweetness that balances the refreshing acidity. Long aftertaste of candied orange peels.
Drink on its own or paired with bitter chocolate, oriental sweets but also with foie gras and strong cheeses like Roquefort.
Blend: 80% Assyrtiko, 20% Aidani
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.
