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Muscat de Beaumes de Venise: Domaine de Durban 2009

Muscat de Beaumes de Venise: Domaine de Durban 2009

With a heady bouquet of orange blossom and apricots and a wonderfully honeyed palate of ripe peaches and yellow plums this hedonistic sweet, golden Muscat wine is delicious with all manner of fruit-based desserts and makes for a superb ‘bonne bouche’ at the end of a meal. Interestingly, it also makes for a fine accompaniment to strong blue cheeses.

Bottle

£16.50
Bottle (case)

£198.00
Half Bottle

£10.50
Half Bottle (case)

£252.00

Muscat de Beaumes de Venise: Domaine de Durban 2009

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Muscat de Beaumes de Venise: Domaine de Durban 2009

The Muscat de Beaumes de Venise wine is made from Muscat à Petit Grains in both its white and dark strains and has a deep golden colour, delightful white peach and apricot scents and flavours and a richly honeyed palate. Locally it is revered as pre-prandial pick-me-up and is consumed chilled in small glasses but it serves very well as a versatile dessert wine or partner to salty blue cheeses too.

Style: White Wine, Sweet (Moelleux), Medium-bodied
Region: Rhone, Beaumes de Venise
Producer: La Famille Leydier
Vintage: 2009
Grape variety (Cépage): Muscat
Wine pairing - drink with: Blue Cheese, Fruit desserts
Cellarage: Drink within 3 years of vintage.
Vinification: Very ripe grapes are fairly late harvested (early October), crushed and fermented at low temperatures. Fermentation is then arrested by a process of mutage; as a precise volume of pure alcohol is added to the wine to kill the yeast cell driving fermentation. This leaves some unconverted sugar and fortifies the wine, which is then bottled the following March.
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 15%