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I just received the March newsletter from Reif Estate Wines in Ontario Canada. In early March they will be releasing a new wine called "The Magician" made with a novel approach that some of the grape wine makers may wish to consider.
We know about the way that Amarone is made with partially raisinized grapes. Here is a new approach...
Perhaps others had heard of this approach before, but I had not. BTW, appassimento seems to mean "grape drying", or as said on one site "shrivel your berries".
EDIT: Here's a magazine article on this winery and their raisins.
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/02/10/were-raisin-our-own-now/
Steve
We know about the way that Amarone is made with partially raisinized grapes. Here is a new approach...
NEW RELEASE
The Magician
He knows how to use all the tools at his disposal, to come up with clever plans no one else would think of…introducing our
2009 Kiln Dried Shiraz Pinot Noir
Reif Estate’s first appassimento style wine. An ideal year for drying grapes. The grapes were hand harvested and slowly dried in our drying kilns over a 3 week period. The fruit was concentrated 20-25%. The grapes were crushed and fermented on the skins for 18 days. After pressing, the wine was moved into one year old French barriques and aged for one year. Intensity and complexity is the main ingredient here. This garnet colour wine has aromas of raspberries, cherries, herbs, a touch of Niagara earth and a hint of cedar. On the palate, a full round mouth feel, raspberries, big bold cherries and pomegranate hints.
Release Date March 4, 2011
Perhaps others had heard of this approach before, but I had not. BTW, appassimento seems to mean "grape drying", or as said on one site "shrivel your berries".
EDIT: Here's a magazine article on this winery and their raisins.
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/02/10/were-raisin-our-own-now/
Steve
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