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Riesling

Late Harvest Riesling Wine Details
Price: $18.00 per bottle

Description: rich, deeply golden colored late harvest Riesling possesses floral aromas of magnolias and roses, with notes of honey, apricots, and pears abounding throughout. Highlighted by sweet apricots, peach, and honey flavors, this wine features luscious fruit characters with a balanced intensity, cleansing acidity, and a lingering sweetness at the finish. Delightful when paired with fruit and cheese.

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
Magnolia:
Muscadine grape derivative with floral flavors used mainly to make sweet white wines in the South-East and Gulf states of the U.S..


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