Prima Riesling

A new wine from the long heritage of Riesling from Pewsey Vale. An early harvest wine, the grapes are picked 4 weeks before the rest of the vineyard when the sugar levels are just right. The wine created can be described as semi dry. An interesting “chalky” acid is balanced off with left over fruit sugars to make an fascinating, refreshing drink.

The other refreshing quality of the wine is its alcohol content at only 9.5%. It is very low in a time when most wine makers seems to be going the other way. It just means that we all have to enjoy more of it, I guess.

I have been lucky enough to have tasted some really old wines from Pewsey Vale at an event at the London Wine Trade Fair. The wines were very different but sublime. Their experimental history with different closures (this one uses the vino-lok closure ), means that they are confident that this wine will store and develop well for 5 – 15 years. Being only in their second release of this wine I look forward to seeing how the wine develops.