Sevilen Late Harvest Misket
I recently gave an online taste along about the grape Bornova Misketi. While the trend has turned to making dry wines with this grape, there are still a few quality sweet wines around. One of which, the Sevilen Late Harvest, I included in the tasting. It feels like ages since I wrote a sweet wine review so, while I only just drank this, this post is overdue.
Sevilen, one of Turkey’s largest wineries, makes some of the country’s most recognizable labels with 20 different labels across five quality categories. The Late Harvest wine belongs to the winery’s Ultra Premium series.
Sevilen Late Harvest 2013 Tasting Notes
Made with, as the name suggests, late harvest grapes, 100% Bornova Mikseti. Fermented in French oak barrels then aged sur lie in barrels for eight months before bottling. The end wine contains 90 grams/liter of sugar and 14% alcohol.
Semi-sweet and dry Bornova Misketi wines usually carry aromas similar to an English garden. In Sevilen’s wine, all those lovely concentrated sugars changed the profile from highly perfumed floral to fruit and spice.
Heady aromas of apricot jam, orange peel, preserved bergamot peel, walnut skins and ginger with fresh citrus detail. Luxurious mouthfeel balanced by racing acidity heightened flavors as goldenly sweet as the wine. Really a beautiful, beautiful wine.