Villa Maria Reserve Botrytis Selection Marlborough Noble Riesling 2021 (375ml)

Description

Dessert, Floral, Honey

This Reserve Noble Riesling demonstrates the transition from dried botrytis Riesling grapes into a beautiful densely concentrated dessert wine which offers candied citrus peel, toffee, apricot and honeysuckle on the nose. Zesty acid backbone creates a lively and fresh palate with exotic flavours of ginger spice and orange marmalade.

Summer was dry and mild with Marlborough’s signature high sunshine hours and cool nights delivering fruit in the best possible condition. The 2021 early autumn season provided Marlborough with very stable weather conditions therefore fruit was able to reach optimum physiological and flavour ripeness. The fruit was impeccably clean and the lower yields meant that the grapes packed a punch in flavour and concentration.

Located on the central valley floor of the Wairau Valley, the Fletcher Vineyard is characterised by free-draining alluvial soils. Pruned to balance the site naturally, Riesling grapes are first encouraged to ripen, then noble botrytis is encouraged through autumnal dews and crisp cool weather. With careful late season management, the fruit is harvested after the botrytis has drawn much of the berries' moisture, concentrating sugars, acids and flavour.