Cave de TurckheimRiesling Alsace Vendanges Tardives
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, vegetarian or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc).
Food and wine pairings with Riesling Alsace Vendanges Tardives
Pairings that work perfectly with Riesling Alsace Vendanges Tardives
Original food and wine pairings with Riesling Alsace Vendanges Tardives
The Riesling Alsace Vendanges Tardives of Cave de Turckheim matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of peasant minestrone, wild salmon with verbena steam or mullet with onions and white wine.
Details and technical informations about Cave de Turckheim's Riesling Alsace Vendanges Tardives.
Discover the grape variety: Riesling
Crystalline, taut whites with vibrant acidity and aromas of citrus, green apple, white flowers, vineyard peach and mineral/petrol notes with age. Made as dry (Trocken, Alsace), off-dry (Kabinett, Spätlese) and sweet (Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese, late harvest). Star of the Moselle, Rheingau, Alsace AOC and Wachau. Also exported to Clare Valley and Finger Lakes.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Riesling Alsace Vendanges Tardives from Cave de Turckheim are 2015
Informations about the Cave de Turckheim
The Cave de Turckheim is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 135 wines for sale in the of Alsace to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Alsace
Capital of great French aromatic whites, most often dry and single-varietal. Straight, mineral Riesling (lemon, gunflint), opulent, exuberant Gewurztraminer (lychee, rose, spices), round, smoky Pinot Gris, floral, crisp Muscat, supple Pinot Blanc. Fine, fruity Crémants d'Alsace, exceptional sweet Vendanges Tardives and Sélection de Grains Nobles. 15,500 ha at the foot of the Vosges on varied soils, 51 Grands Crus since 1975.
The word of the wine: Vinification of sweet wines
Moelleux and liquoreux wines are characterized by the presence of residual sugars (natural sugar of the grape), not transformed into alcohol under the effect of yeasts. The fermentation is stopped by cold and by the addition of sulphur dioxide (sulphur).
