Saturday Night – It’s Chardonnay time! Part 4

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For dessert I stepped away from the Chardonnay theme and opened up a bottle of Henry of Pelham Botrytis Affected Riesling. This was paired with homemade chocolate chip cookies with Vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce.

"Simple, but very yummy!"

This wine has already been rated in an earlier review – http://zippysauce.blogspot.com/2008/07/saturday-night-sins-of-zin-part-3.html
so I won’t go into much detail.

"Worth every cent!"

Here is the LCBO Information on the wine –

Henry of Pelham Botrytis Affected Riesling 2005

Vintages 534628
375 mL bottle
Price: $ 27.90
Wine, White Wine,
10.0% Alcohol/Vol.
Sugar Content : S
This is a VQA wine
Made in: Ontario, Canada
By: Henry Of Pelham Family Est. Winery
Release Date: Sep 29, 2007

Description - Botrytis cinera is a fungus that is responsible for many of the world's great dessert wines including Sauternes and Hungarian Tokaji. It shrivels the grapes which concentrates the sugars and acids, as well as adding a distinctly 'wild' quality to the wines. Henry of Pelham reserves a small, low-lying block of Riesling in hopes that once every five years they get the warm days, cool nights and foggy mornings needed to create these unique wines. Enjoy this rich, complex wine with a selection of fine artisan cheeses.

It was a great pairing with the dessert as both the bottle and dessert quickly disappeared. Trying the wine again, it was easy to see why this wine made the Zippy Sauce Top Ten list on the blog – big, complex but not overly sweet dessert wine. Strangely enough there are still about 40 bottles left at the LCBO, do yourself a favour and pick up a bottle or two – you won’t regret this purchase!

Cheers!

Mark