Pelee Island WineryLate Harvest Riesling
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or shellfish.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Late Harvest Riesling of Pelee Island Winery in the region of Ontario often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Late Harvest Riesling
Pairings that work perfectly with Late Harvest Riesling
Original food and wine pairings with Late Harvest Riesling
The Late Harvest Riesling of Pelee Island Winery matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of endives with ham, spanish paella or rougail sausage.
Details and technical informations about Pelee Island Winery's Late Harvest 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 Late Harvest Riesling from Pelee Island Winery are 2016, 2012, 0, 2017 and 2011.
Informations about the Pelee Island Winery
The Pelee Island Winery is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 65 wines for sale in the of Ontario to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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: Vintage (champagne)
It is a champagne made from a single harvest. In principle, we only vintage the great years: 1988, 1990, 1995, 1996... We find more often, now, the very good 2002, and the 2004, a little short.
