Winery Kuentz-BasCuvée Caroline Vendange Tardive Riesling
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, vegetarian or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc).
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Cuvée Caroline Vendange Tardive Riesling of Winery Kuentz-Bas in the region of Alsace often reveals types of flavors of honey, earth.
Food and wine pairings with Cuvée Caroline Vendange Tardive Riesling
Pairings that work perfectly with Cuvée Caroline Vendange Tardive Riesling
Original food and wine pairings with Cuvée Caroline Vendange Tardive Riesling
The Cuvée Caroline Vendange Tardive Riesling of Winery Kuentz-Bas matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of oven roasted rabbit that cooks itself!, tuna sandwich or chicken tagine with lemon confit (marrakech style).
Details and technical informations about Winery Kuentz-Bas's Cuvée Caroline Vendange Tardive Riesling.
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 Cuvée Caroline Vendange Tardive Riesling from Winery Kuentz-Bas are 1998, 2005
Informations about the Winery Kuentz-Bas
The Winery Kuentz-Bas is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 87 wines for sale in the of Alsace Grand Cru to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Alsace Grand Cru
Alsatian hierarchical summit: 51 classified lieux-dits over ~800 ha, ultra-varied terroirs (granite, schist, limestone, pink sandstone, marl). 4 noble grapes authorized. Signature Riesling chiseled and taut with signature notes of lemon, white peach, white flowers, stone fruits and a petrol mineral touch, long aging. Opulent Gewurztraminer (lychee, rose, spices), ample smoky Pinot Gris, dry aromatic Muscat.
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: Cuvée prestige (champagne)
Vintage or not, it is composed of a selection of terroirs and generally comes from the first press after eliminating the very first juices that come out of the press. The best known? Dom Pérignon, Cristal de Roederer, Grand Siècle de Laurent-Perrie, Louise at Pommery. In fact, all the houses and most of the independent winegrowers have their own prestige cuvee.
