1985 Dolce Winery Late Harvest

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  2/19/2020 - forceberry wrote: 93 Points

  The first ever vintage of this wine, labeled "Far Niente White Table Wine Dolce" - Dolce Far Niente meaning "sweet idleness" in Italian. Made from botrytized Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon; a total six of oak barrels were made. Never released commercially. 13,5% alcohol.
  
  Deep and wonderfully developed reddish copper color. Sweet and somewhat oxidative nose with complex, evolved aromas of maple syrup, pungent nutty tones of rancio and chopped almonds, caramel, some apple sauce, a little bit of rowanberry marmalade, light cloudberry jam tones, a hint of leather and a touch of cooked rose hips. The wine is sweet, silky and somewhat oily on the palate with a full body and slightly oxidative flavors of bruised apples, some ripe golden damsons, a little bit of cooked rose hips, light and gently bitter rowanberry tones, a hint of cloudberry jam and a touch of maple syrup. The wine is medium-to-moderately high in acidity; not enough to lend the wine freshness, but high enough to keep in balance. The finish is sweet, sticky and slightly warm with long, rich and complex flavors of maple syrup, bruised apple, some rowanberry tones, a little bit of cooked rose hips, light burnt sugar bitterness and a hint of caramel.
  
  A very nice, wonderfully evolved and quite complex dessert wine. The wine is obviously peaking now and won't develop anywhere from here, but most likely the wine isn't going to fall apart anytime soon either. Not a spectacular sweet wine in any way, but a remarkable effort considering this was the very first vintage they ever made - it is quite a feat to create a wine capable of keeping good for more than 35 years right from the first vintage! A serious and well-made new world sticky.

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