late harvest
End-season grape collection
Late harvest describes wine made from grapes left on the vine past normal picking time, allowing them to develop higher sugar concentrations.
The extended ripening produces sweeter, more intensely flavored wines: a late harvest Riesling.
The term appears on labels to indicate this style, which ranges from lightly sweet to dessert-wine richness.
- autumnPost-summer cooling period
- grapesClustered vine fruit
- wineFermented grape beverage
- goldenBright yellow, or precious
- frostThin ice coating
first frost · sweetness · sugar content · sweet spot · vineyard · wine country · October · ripe · sun dried · dessert wine · ice wine · noble rot · lingering · amber · honeyed · botrytis · cellar · sunset
- dessert winesice wine, icewine, vin santo
- German RieslingRiesling, Steinberg
- winesred wine, white wine, merlot, chardonnay, cabernet
- winemakingwinery, winemaking, crushing, grapevines, grape vines
- crop stagesplanting, sowing, germination, sprouting, seedling
- harvest timingripeness, peak ripeness, readiness, maturity date, growth stage
wine sweetness/style
late harvestbrut
Unsweetened sparkling wine designation
bone dry · sec · table wine · crisp white
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