Winery Hidden BenchSelect Late Harvest Gewürztraminer Vendanges Tardives
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with poultry, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or mild and soft cheese.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Select Late Harvest Gewürztraminer Vendanges Tardives of Winery Hidden Bench in the region of Ontario often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or tropical fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Select Late Harvest Gewürztraminer Vendanges Tardives
Pairings that work perfectly with Select Late Harvest Gewürztraminer Vendanges Tardives
Original food and wine pairings with Select Late Harvest Gewürztraminer Vendanges Tardives
The Select Late Harvest Gewürztraminer Vendanges Tardives of Winery Hidden Bench matches generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of tuna pie, keftas tajine with eggs or king's cake with frangipane.
Details and technical informations about Winery Hidden Bench's Select Late Harvest Gewürztraminer Vendanges Tardives.
Discover the grape variety: Gewurztraminer
Full-bodied, exotic whites, rich and heady, with moderate acidity, showing opulent aromas of lychee, rose, mango, ginger, pink grapefruit and gentle spice. Made as aromatic dry, moelleux late-harvest and liquorous sélection de grains nobles. Star of Alsace AOC (one of the four noble varieties) and signature of Alto Adige (Tramin), Palatinate and Germany. A pink mutation of Traminer.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Select Late Harvest Gewürztraminer Vendanges Tardives from Winery Hidden Bench are 2013, 0
Informations about the Winery Hidden Bench
The Winery Hidden Bench is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 34 wines for sale in the of Niagara Escarpment - Ontario to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Niagara Escarpment - Ontario
VQA regional appellation of Ontario's bench lands (Short Hills, Twenty Mile and Beamsville Bench), north-facing slopes beneath the Escarpment, fossiliferous sedimentary dolomites, lake trapping warm air, ridge reflecting lake breezes. Riesling and Chardonnay reign as whites — tense, mineral-driven, citrus and saline notes. Cabernet Franc, Gamay Noir and Baco Noir in fine-berry reds, acclaimed icewine, temperate climate, late budbreak avoiding frost.
The wine region of Ontario
World reference for Canadian Icewine: exceptional sweet wines from grapes frozen on the vine, golden colour, signature notes of candied apricot, mango, honey, citrus and exotic fruits, opulent sugar balanced by taut acidity (Vidal for fruit, Riesling for finesse). Cool-climate still wines: mineral, lively Riesling, precise Chardonnay, fine Pinot Noir (cherry, undergrowth), peppery Cabernet Franc. ~5,500 ha on the Niagara Peninsula between Lake Ontario and the escarpment, VQA.
The word of the wine: Red winemaking
Transformation of grapes into must and wine under the effect of alcoholic fermentation. The vinification of red wines takes place in several stages: destemming, crushing, alcoholic fermentation, vatting, running off and maturing.
