2000 Gold, Late Harvest dessert wine- library wine

2000 gold
Late Harvest Botrytis dessert wine
30% Sauvignon Blanc, 70% Riesling

"This deeply colored, golden wine is very sweet and hyperbotrytized with apricot, Grand Marnier and honey flavors and the smoothest texture imaginable"—  The Wine Enthusiast

As it is poured, your senses are tantalized by its golden hue.  The nose fills your head with lush aromas of ripe apricots, dried peaches and tropical flowers.  The taste is exotic, sweet though not cloying, like dried apricots over Creme Brulee.  It's rich and sumptuous.  Gold doesn't just go with dessert such as fruit tarts, Bavarian Creams and Creme Brulee, gold is dessert.

This is one of the very few wines in the world that is made from grapes that are 100% engulfed with the "noble rot".   The Sauvignon Blanc is from the Salinas valley and the Riesling is from Napa.  The blend adds even more complexity than had our previous single vineyard botrytis wines.

The Riesling grapes are allowed to hang until very late in the season. Botrytis Cineraria mold grows on the grapes concentrating the sugars and flavoring the wine in the same way mold is used to flavor cheese. After selective hand picking, and specialized pressing the juice is cold fermented for several months to produce this remarkably rich and complex wine. Gold is dessert in a glass.

We produced 600 cases of half bottles.

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