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Chester was the first to pioneer this wine style in McLaren Vale. He experimented with this luscious style of dessert wine in his first year as winemaker here at d’Arenberg in 1984 after a degree in Oenology at Roseworthy Agricultural College and a stint traveling around some of the winemaking districts of France. The Noble Riesling came about as a result of a series of viticultural coincidences in the vineyard which causes the mould ‘Botrytis Cinerea’ to grow on selected grapes and areas of the vineyard which have been subject to humid conditions. Generally, this is the result of geography and indeed some of our best botrytis fruit comes from friends and neighbours vineyards which are very low lying. The harvest date is critical – too late and the fruit can become washed out, too early and the fruit will not have fully developed the degree of Botrytis Cinerea which we require. Harvesting occurs up to three times over the vineyard depending on the site. We need fully infected bunches and berries, and this is pressed and fermented at the winery. Typically this is the last parcel of fruit that the cellars receive - as late as July in some years. The fermentation is typically fraught as the high sugar content of the fruit can sometimes inhibit the yeasts from initiating the fermentation. There are some vintages when we have received parcels of Botrytis affected Semillon or Gew?miner. Hence we have periodical releases of Noble Semillon and Noble Traminer Riesling.

	d'Arenberg Noble Chardonnay SEmillion 2006 37.5cl Price: £12.77 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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	d'Arenberg Noble Riesling 2006 37.5cl Price: £11.60 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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	d'Arenberg Noble Riesling 2005 37.5cl Very few bottles of this incredible wine made it to the UK - the sugar level on the fruit are very very high Price: £13.95 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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	d'Arenberg Noble Roussanne Marsanne Viognier 2003 37.5cl d'Arenberg Noble Roussanne Marsanne Viognier 2003 Presently the wine is dominated with characters of pear, cut pear skin, peach, tropical fruits, spring flowers, rose and apricot. There is also an almond green husk like note of the perfumed Roussanne coming through. We expect more characters will develop with time. The palate is lush with pears and apricots, white peach notes which lead to flavours of mango and a ripe passionfruit spectrum. The Roussanne imparts the pear and floral notes, the Marsanne the green honeysuckle and the Viognier; the apricot spectrum. This wine is beautifully suited to be served with a dessert or on its own as an aperitif. Price: £21.33 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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	d'Arenberg Noble Riesling 2002 37.5cl The Noble Riesling has an appearance of a rich straw-gold, green-tinged colour. The shriveled grapes are intensely sweet and full of character, producing a wine with a wide array of fruits – pear, citrus peel, lime, nectarine, white peach, cumquats, citrus blossom, lime, and mango. There is also perfumed passionfruit, pineapple cubes and peachy ‘botrytis cinerea’ smells. The wine retains about half its natural sugar, leaving a beautifully sweet lush wine that has a long, very precise mouth-filling Riesling flavours with a white peach, citrus zest and a marmalade, cumquat, sweet peach that crescendo with an intensely luscious, yet refreshingly clean, acidic finish. With age, the colour deepens while the characters slowly transform into lifted caramel, butterscotch and beeswax complexities. Other tertiary aromas sometimes found are nutty marzipan, marmalade, cloves and orange peel. The backdrop remains refreshing, with lemon-lime and dried apricot acidity. Price: £12.83 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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	d'Arenberg Noble Riesling 2001 37.5cl The Noble Riesling typically exhibits ripeness and richness of flavour and an overall intensity which, combined with balancing acidity results in a rare wine with extraordinary characters of lemon, peach, tropical citrus and honeysuckle, as well as quince, cumquat, marmalade and dried apricot characters. Serving and Cellaring Suggestions: Serve Chilled below 8 ?C. now or over the next 2-12 years with fruit, delicate seafood and with pate or oysters, as a dessert by itself or with almonds and bleu cheese. Price: £11.16 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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