the winery's philosophy is, if you're going to make a dessert wine, why not make it fabulously sweet instead of boringly off-dry? with 17.5% residual sugar, this indeed hits the limit of the sweetness scale. yet it's superbly balanced with acidity, giving a refreshing balance to the intense apricot jam, lemon drop, candied ginger, pineapple crème brûlée and vanilla custard flavors. a tremendous success for a california dessert wine.
Late Harvest