Miles Mossop Kika Noble Late Harvest 2013

Colour: The wine has a brilliant deep golden straw colour.
Nose: The nose has intense complex aromas of dried apricot, peach and hints of ginger-spice and cinnamon. There are notes of candied orange and honeysuckle blossoms, with hints of toasted almonds and marzipan.
Palate: The palate is rich and full with ripe fruit flavours balanced by spice and a slight grip. The acidity helps clear the palate that finishes clean and refreshed with a hint of toastiness. The wine demonstrates a perfect balance between the natural sweetness and acid offset by the moderate alcohol.

Fresh pan seared Foie Gras or Foie gras pate served on Crostini and herb salad; Or served with a dessert of crepes and a citrus syrup; Or ripe hard cheese and nuts.

variety : Chenin Blanc [ 100% Chenin Blanc ]
winemaker : Miles Mossop
wine of origin : 
analysis : alc : 12.0 % vol  rs : 149.2 g/l  pH : 3.84  ta : 8.1 g/l  
type : Dessert  style : Sweet  body : Full  
pack : Bottle  size : 0  closure : Cork  

ageing : To be enjoyed immediately after release but will benefit with cellaring for up to 5 years from harvest.

about the harvest: We do up to three pickings. Picking only bunches which are perfectly infected with Noble Rot. The grapes were picked at a sugar of around 38 degrees brix and an acidity of 9.0 g/l.

in the cellar : 

The grapes were delivered to the winery and put directly into cold storage overnight to drop the temperature of the grapes down to around 4 degrees Celsius. The grapes were then hand sorted and loaded into a basket press where they were foot trodden to maximise extraction. After pressing the juice was settled and racked to 400 liter barrels where fermentation took place naturally taking 3 months to complete. The fermentation stopped naturally at a perfect balance of sweetness, acidity and alcohol.

Only 2800, ½ bottles were produced.

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