2022 Clark Estate “Botrytised” Riesling
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The 2022 Botrytised Riesling has 260g/l residual sugar, giving it a beautiful creamy mouthfeel with delicious honeyed, dried fruit flavours, very fine acidity.
This beautiful wine is luscious and succulent with delicious notes of honey citrus with hints of spice. The lovely sweetness is balanced perfectly with fine acidity thanks to the classic Upper Awatere cool climate. This wine will be enjoyed at its best now and treasured for years to come.
The 2022 Botrytised Riesling has 260g/l residual sugar, giving it a beautiful creamy mouthfeel with delicious honeyed, dried fruit flavours, very fine acidity.
This beautiful wine is luscious and succulent with delicious notes of honey citrus with hints of spice. The lovely sweetness is balanced perfectly with fine acidity thanks to the classic Upper Awatere cool climate. This wine will be enjoyed at its best now and treasured for years to come.
Gold Medal – 2024 International Wine Challenge, London
Gold Medal – 2023 New Zealand International Wine Show
Gold Medal – 2023 National Wine Awards Aotearoa NZ
Trophy Medal – 2023 National Wine Awards Aotearoa NZ
Gold Medal – 2023 Australian & New Zealand Boutique Wine Show
Trophy Medal – 2023 Australian & New Zealand Boutique Wine Show
Gold Medal – 2023 The Marlborough Wine Show
95 points / 5 stars      Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
This is superbly opulent and fragrant on the nose with marmalade, Manuka honey, cake spice and candied apple notes, followed by a deliciously sweet palate that’s richly textured and persistent. Splendidly balanced by bright acidity, finishing wonderfully long and luscious. At its best: now to 2030. Feb 2023.
94 points / 4.5 stars      Bob Campbell, MW
Intense, luscious, creamy-textured dessert wine with obvious honeyed botrytis influence together with crème brûlée, raisin, apricot and spicy Christmas cake characters. Complex wine with a thread of bright acidity. Drink 2023 to 2030. Feb 2023.
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95 points Outstanding      Cameron Douglas MS
Golden hues with a spun gold polish lead to aromas and flavours of lemon and sweet apple, fragrances of pressed roses and honey, there’s an apricot and sherbet sensation and core of sweetness with contrasting acid line. Absolutely delicious, thirst quenching and sweet, juicy, fleshy and lengthy with a creamy silk texture. Best drinking from 2023 through 2030.
95 points / 5 stars      Candice Chow, Raymond Chan Wine Reviews
Bright, even, golden yellow with depth. The nose is full and complex, with rich aromas of citrus preserve, dried apple, honey, floral and beeswax. Full-bodied, aromas of mandarin and lime marmalade and dried apple entwined with honey, floral, beeswax and spice. A hint of saline reflects subtle minerality. A creamy, weighty palate packed with complex flavours and lively acidity balance enables a long, luscious finish. Match with blue cheese walnut tart and pavlova over the next 10 years. Entirely botrytis infected Riesling, lightly pressed, fermented in cool conditions of winter. 10.5% alc, 260 g/l RS. Feb 2023
95 points      International Wine Challenge, London
Medonistic and evocative wine with bags of ginger, dry fruit, buttery texture and never ending finish. Bags of apricot jam!
Viticulture
When the weather conditions are ideal for this style, the grapes are left on the vine to rot into botrytised honeyed clumps. The bunches were entirely infected with Botrytis, this is considered very rare and a sign of a near perfect harvest for Riesling.
Winemaking
The grapes were lightly pressed and fermented in the cool conditions of winter. Fermentation was only stopped once the perfect balance between sweetness and acidity was reached.
Wine Analysis
pH Â Â Â Â Â Â 3.33
TAÂ Â Â Â 8.6 g/L
Alc      10.5%
RSÂ Â Â Â 260.0 g/L
Only in years where the conditions are perfect can we make this wine. The grapes are left on the vine to slowly be infected by the fungal disease known as Botrytis. The Botrytis reduces the water content of the berries, leaving a very intense, very sweet raisin. The sugar content can reach as much as 48%, more than double the amount of normal grapes at harvest, as well as the botrytised flavour.