 | d'Arenberg Noble Riesling 2002 37.5cl
The Noble Riesling has an appearance of a rich straw-gold, green-tinged colour. The shriveled grapes are intensely sweet and full of character, producing a wine with a wide array of fruits – pear, citrus peel, lime, nectarine, white peach, cumquats, citrus blossom, lime, and mango. There is also perfumed passionfruit, pineapple cubes and peachy
‘botrytis cinerea’ smells. The wine retains about half its natural sugar, leaving a beautifully sweet lush wine that has a long, very precise mouth-filling Riesling flavours with a white peach, citrus zest and a marmalade, cumquat, sweet peach that crescendo with an intensely luscious, yet refreshingly clean, acidic finish. With age, the colour deepens while the characters slowly transform into lifted caramel, butterscotch and beeswax complexities. Other tertiary aromas sometimes found are nutty marzipan, marmalade, cloves and orange peel. The backdrop remains refreshing, with lemon-lime and dried apricot acidity.
Price: £12.83 (Including: VAT at 17.5%) |
