Vineyard: Carmel
Wine: Semillion Late Harvest 1998
Type: Sweet White

This is the best of the sweet white wines to hit the kosher wine market. Only 1000 of these bottles were produced and they are well worth the price.

This wine is made by slowly pressing late harvest grapes, so late that they are nearly raisins growing on the vine. After harvest, these grapes are pressed for 12 hours. One and a half tons of grapes can produce only 600 liters of juice. And that makes just enough for 1,000 bottles of a very special and distinctive wine. The wine is aged for only 4 weeks, contains 14.8% alcohol, 20% sugar and no brandy at all.

Everything about this sweet white wine is unique. Even their bottles, at 375 ml each, are smaller than the average dessert wine bottle.

This wine is more complex and distinctive than any of the other sweet, white wines I have tasted. A dessert wine, this Semillon Late Harvest has all the components of any great wine. A definite treat to be enjoyed at special times and with special people.

Rated: 10+
Price: Moderate
Size: 375 ml
Price per bottle: NIS 82
Case: 12 bottles.