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Wine Type Pudding Wine
Vintage NV
Style Rich & Complex Whites
Country Australia
Region South Eastern Australia
Grower Name All Saints
Grape Variety Muscat/Moscato
ABV 17%
Closure Glass Stopper
All Saints Estate, Rutherglen Muscat, Victoria, Australia, NV
Jascots tasting note...
" This is a great celebration of the vital characters of luscious Muscat. Fashioned from barrels of old stock of various vintages, All Saints has lovely flavours of butterscotch and apricot, fresh lifted spirit, and that sensational aromatic profiles. The long, warm Autumn days at Wahgunyah are virtually perfect for allowing the fruit to ripen to the high baume levels and raisining so essential for the style. Delightful on its own as an after-dinner drink, All Saints is superb when served alongside hot oven fresh, steaming and spicey desserts. "
Goes great with...
Chocolate, Puddings - Sweet & Puddings - Fruit
Save £38.40 a case
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About The Grower All Saints
The All Saints Estate's pride and joy are the old vineyard blocks of Muscat, planted just after the First World War. These old-timers are picture-postcard vines, weather-beaten and twisted, defying the years to produce fantastic fruit. Grapes are left on the vine to get really ripe; many of them shrivel up to raisins. The fruit is picked and crushed. This macerates for a few hours in order to allow any raisined berries to swell up. It is then pressed and the juice prevented from fermenting by the addition of high-strength neutral alcohol. The wine is allowed to settle for a few days before being racked off to barrel for maturation. The Rutherglen level of the classification is for the youngest wines with only a few years barrel age.
This wine isn't actually fermented. Muscat â petit grains rouges (brown Muscat) is picked, crushed and macerated for three days, then the must is pressed and fortified to 18% with grape spirit. It is then matured in barrel for a number of years. This wine is a blend of wines of different ages. Probably around 200g/l of residual sugar - far sweeter than even Yquem.
Château d'Yquem, 1er Cru Classé, Sauternes, France 2003
Jascots tasting note...
" Light to mid gold. Light but clean and ripe pear juice nose. Very sweet and already a little bit hot. Some spicy gingerbread quality. Very forward for Yquem."" 18/20, Jancis Robinson MW "
Goes great with...
Puddings - Fruit, Cheese - Blue & Fois Gras
Château Rieussec, Carmes de Rieussec, Sauternes, Bordeaux, France 2007
Jascots tasting note...
" Château Rieussec
For several generations, Château Rieussec has been a leading name in Sauternes wines... "
Goes great with...
Puddings - Fruit, Fois Gras & Cheese - Blue
Save £37.80 a case
Château Rieussec, Carmes de Rieussec, Sauternes, Bordeaux, France 2007, Half Bottles
Jascots tasting note...
" Château Rieussec
For several generations, Château Rieussec has been a leading name in Sauternes wines... "
Goes great with...
Puddings - Fruit, Fois Gras & Cheese - Blue