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Ready for something really intense? Then sip a late harvest dessert wine and experience the palate-punching blast of concentrated grape that's more decadently sweet and flavorful than any chocolate out there. What makes these exotic wines so intense is the meticulous way the grapes are grown and processed. The white (typically Riesling) grapes are left to hang on the vines well past their normal harvest date until they shrivel or are frozen by cold weather (the ice wine method). In both processes, water is removed, leaving a grape residue with super concentrated sugar, flavor and complexity. 3LUXE believes the best desserts come in a bottle, and our three “Best Of” late harvest dessert wines are such decadent treats you'll be tempted to put whipped cream on them.
The old saying, good things come in small packages, certainly rings true for a late harvest dessert wine like
2004 Von Othegraven Kanzem Altenberg Eiswein First Growth Riesling, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer. The blast of flavor from this rare wine is so intense that it's sold in half bottles, suggesting this "Best Of" is best taken in small doses. The riesling grapes for this eiswein (German for ice wine) are grown on a family vineyard that dates back to 1500. Located in one of Germany's great viticulture clim...
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Sometimes a wedding is more than a union of two love birds. It's a joining of resources to make something truly special, like the "Best Of"
2004 Dr. Pauly-Bergweiler Bernkasteler Badstube Eiswein Riesling, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer late harvest dessert wine. When Dr. Peter Pauly and his wife Helga married in 1971, they joined two legendary Mosel River Valley wine estates' Pauly-Bergweiler und Peter Nicolay. These two estates have long possessed prized vineyards in Bernkasteler, a world-famous village whose ...
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We all have those meals where we stuff ourselves to the point that we couldn't think about eating dessert, yet a taste of something sinfully sweet sure sounds good. That's the perfect time to reach for a "Best Of" late harvest dessert wine like the
2004 Robert Weil Riesling Eiswein Kiedrich Grafeerberg. This late harvest eiswein (German for ice wine) riesling hails from Rheingau, a self-contained region on the Rhine River that is one of the world's top riesling-growing areas. Wilhelm Weil, the grea...
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