2023 Botrytis Semillon

Our Botrytis Semillon is a dessert-style wine made from Semillon grapes infected with the fungus Botrytis Cinerea. The grapes are left out for an additional six weeks allowing extra ripeness & sugars to accumulate up to 24 baumé. We have been making this wine for decades, winning multiple trophies and accolades along the way.

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PROFILE

True to the style of classic sweet wines this one has a luscious palate with apricot marmalade, honeysuckle and pineapple. The finish is long and refreshing with citrus notes. It is a beautifully balanced wine.

VINEYARD

Timbervines Vineyard which can create the right humidity conditions to allow the fungus Botrytis Cinerea to grow.

Broke, Fordwich

WINEMAKING

We leave these grapes out for a month and a half later than we would for dry Semillon and this allows for extra ripeness and sugars to accumulate up to 29 Baumé. The grapes come into the winery and are crushed and de-stemmed. They go into the press to gently extract the juice over a 12 hour press cycle. The juice then undergoes a long, cool fermentation. We stop fermentation when the residual sugar is approximately 10-11 Baumé and bottle straight away to maintain freshness. Unlike sweet wines of other regions, we don’t use oak to mature the wine. This sweet wine is made in tiny quantities from ‘noble rot’ affected Semillon grapes. The sugars
and acids are concentrated to create a lightly alcoholic, naturally sweetened wine of distinction.

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