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A luscious blend of fully-ripened Chenin Blanc, Gewürztraminer and Weisser Riesling, Nederburg Special Late Harvest 2002 is a finessed balance between mouth-filling sweetness, tempered by lively acidity and offers an array of lingering flavours from rose petals to lemon and peach.
Vinification
Nederburg Special Late Harvest is made reductively to ensure a freshness and immediacy of flavour and ends in a crisp finish. Savour its honeyed late summer flavours as an aperitif or with mild spicy dishes, dried fruit and baked puddings.
Anaylysis of Nederberg Special Late Harvest
Alc. %vol : 13.24
R.S. g/l : 52.57
T.A. g/l : 6.84
pH :3.31
Nederburg wine makers
Razvan Macici, Andrea Freeborough, Elunda Basson
Late harvest is a term applied to wines made from grapes left on the vine longer than usual. Late harvest is usually an indication of a sweet dessert wine such as late harvest riesling. Late harvest grapes are often more similar to raisins, but have been naturally dehydrated while on the vine.
Botrytis, noble rot, is a mold that causes grapes to lose nearly all of their water content. Wines made from botrytis-affected grapes are generally extremely sweet. Sauternes, such as Chateau d'Yquem, and many Tokaji wines are made from botrytis-affected grapes. Late harvest wines are made from grapes that have not necessarily been affected by botrytis, although the end result is often similar.
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