2004/05 Muscat de Rivesaltes, Domaine Cazes, Languedoc Roussillon 37.5cl

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2004/05 Muscat de Rivesaltes, Domaine Cazes, Languedoc Roussillon 37.5cl

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Grapes:
100%	Muscat

Food Matching Note :
Poultry, fish or pork dishes which are spicy, otherwise it traditionally matches cheese dishes such as blue cheese and spiced walnut terrine or desserts such as cheesecake mousse with rum-poached plums or poached pears with sweet wine.
Tasting Note :
Pale gold in colour with aromas of lime, grapefruit, tropical fruit and fennel. The palate is rounded, rich and sweet without being cloying as the honey and apricot fruit is balanced with a limey acidity that keeps it fresh through to the soft finish.
Vinification Note :
The wine retains a proportion of the sugars that occur naturally in the fruit. Fortification may take place earlier or later, according to whether a sweet (doux) or medium-sweet (demi-sec) wine is required, providing that the regulations regarding final alcohol content, which must be between 15% and 18% by volume, are respected.
Detailed Vinification Note :
The production of these sweet, fortified wines is almost a Roussillon exclusivity, since 90 per cent of France's Vins Doux Naturels come from the Pyrénées Orientales departement in which Roussillon is found. For centuries, they have been made according to the process of fortification, a process discovered in 1285 by Arnau de Vilanova: the fermentation of grape juice is arrested by adding a quantity of neutral alcohol (at 96° GL) to between 5 and 10 per cent of the total volume. In this way the wine retains a proportion of the sugars that occur naturally in the fruit. Fortification may take place earlier or later, according to whether a sweet (doux) or medium-sweet (demi-sec) wine is required, providing that the regulations regarding final alcohol content, which must be between 15% and 18% by volume, are respected.

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