Variety: Riesling
Region: Rheinhessen, Germany
Vintage: 2016
Price: $30-$35
Winery review: "This wine is a gastronomic specialty made from hand-picked frozen grapes that were harvested in the early morning hours at 10F. These grapes produce only a small amount of highly concentrated juice. The resulting wine is similarly concentrated with intense flavors of apricot, pineapple and spicy pear. Its silky sweetness is balanced by bright acidity, which makes it perfect to pair with richer desserts."
Wine Folly: Page 121 Ice Wine - I mostly get the Apricot, pineapple, and slight lychee on the tail end of the wine. The wine is very sweet and quite acidic as well. As this is a type of wine I enjoy drinking quite frequently, I was able to enjoy it in the proper glass as well as at the correct temperature of around 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
Personal Review: Though less than other wines in this category, I quite enjoyed this wine. Similar to other wines like it, it almost coats your mouth, smooth and quite a thick feeling wine, almost like a very watered-down syrup. The taste evolves over time, from the first quite acidic and sweet bite of a sweet citrus/peach to the more subtle notes of honey (not very familiar with honeysuckle itself, so I assume this is along the same lines as that flavor note). I drank this wine on its own for the initial taste and later paired it with homemade cheesecake, as recommended by wine folly. This made the wine much better for me; it brought the intense sweetness down a bit as it was balanced by the tartness/sweetness of the cheesecake. Another frequent pairing I make with these kinds of wine is with french style pastries, such as pain au chocolate (A pastry made in a similar way to a croissant, but with sticks of darker chocolate folded in (other names include chocolatine, chocolate croissant)) or chouquettes (A pastry made similar to cream puffs, though they don't have fillings and are topped with pearl sugar). I feel like these pastries would not have paired as well as the cheesecake with this specific wine as it was much too sweet to be combatted by the more subtle nature of the flavors of the pastries.
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