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noble sweet

Term for the characteristic taste of a sweet wine made from botrytised berries. The term has no legal meaning in wine law, as is the case with sweet. The wines have a honey and/or caramel flavour (brittle), which can also be slightly bitter, for which the flavouring substance sotolone is responsible.

Trockenbeerenauslese - getrocknete Beeren in der Hand / Weintraube am Stock

Prerequisites

The prerequisite for such wines are grapes with a high must weight of at least 110 °Oe or 22 °KMW and higher. This must be achieved on the vine, not by drying the grapes afterwards, as is the case with straw wine or what is known in Italy as passito. In general, such grapes require a warm and dry late summer and a long ripening period, which is why they are harvested late.

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