Botrytis Riesling Wines

What better to way to finish a meal than with a sticky, and what better way to display the quality of Tasmanian Riesling in this late harvest style. This has an enticingly aromatic nose of apricot, pears and musk that leads into a luscious palate ...

Most of the sweet style wines in this country are made using Semillon but Castelli Estate have cleverly made a late harvest Riesling that clearly demonstrates what a perfect variety it is to use. It has just the right amount of sweetness that’s ba...

As the name suggests this is a brand new project for the Taylors winemakers, a new dessert wine produced from Riesling grapes that have botrytised, that is they've been infected with a particular rot that dries up the grapes and intensifies the fl...

If you are a sticky aficionado then this dessert style from Marlborough’s Forrester Estate is going to be just up your street. It’s made in the Germanic Auslese mould, meaning it’s sweet but has that redeeming acid factor ensuring it’s not too ove...

Fullish brassy straw-yellow colour. The nose is a touch muffled and lacks freshness and brightness, while the palate is shrill in its acidity and lean, a touch hard and strident. The sulfur may be holding this down at the moment. Released too youn...

Deep golden colour. Faintly sulfidic and nutty (possibly oak-derived) aromas over honey and herbal notes. The herbaceous, almost green aspects continue on the palate and finish. Moderate sweetness. The overall taste is pleasant enough, albeit with...

Breathy, cold tea and sweaty oxidative aromas, possibly ignoble rot. Doesn't taste clean. Oily viscosity and it has truck loads of sugar, but not freshness or clean fruit nor botrytis flavours.

Bright, full yellow colour and a clean, crisp, technically excellent nose. Fresh and rich with vanilla and fruit compote aromas, golden syrup and malt extract. Lots of sugar, very good wine indeed at the sweeter end of the scale.

Origin: Yarrawood Estate vineyard, Yarra Glen Grapes: 100% Riesling Winemaking: Sourced from Yarrawood estate and grown in the grey alluvial soils of Yarra Glen at 80 metres above sea level. The vineyard has an south-easterly aspect and wa...

Impeccably crafted and enticingly drinkable, this dessert wine effortlessly leaps every hurdle that threaten to trip up so many sweet wines. Glorious, pristine white peach, apricot, lemon and honey flavours uphold both delightfully succulent gener...

It's difficult to believe that this wine even exists. Winemaker Alain Rousseau reckons he's only made two good botrytis wines in Tassie, one at Moorilla and now this. Just 1000 bottles for cellar door, he suggests it took four or five kilograms of...

Sweet rieslings are the undiscovered gems of the apple isle. Not any more! This is a versatile dessert wine because it hasn't been ripened until it turns to jam! This makes it fresher and more tangy than most botrytis styles, full of crunchy apple...

A striking wine for the iridescent green/gold colour, this has plenty of freshness and concentration of citrus, ripe lime and lemon fruit, lemon curd and apricot; really fresh. The palate s supple and rich, really dense and deep, flows creamy with...

Medium to deep yellow colour. Some sulfide aromas give it a sickly reduced aspect. Nutty, sweaty, meaty notes. Sweet entry with attractive lemony, bright fruit. Fairly simple but appealing flavour. Ample sugar. Clean, fresh acidity too, which is d...