Nederburg Private Bin S316 Weisser Riesling Noble Late Harvest 37.5cl Half Bottle

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Nederburg Private Bin S316 Weisser Riesling Noble Late Harvest. We bought a good chunk of this wine at the Nederburg Auction many years ago. We only have a few bottles left now. Very limited.

Nederburg has a long wine-making history stretching back over 200 years to 1791 when Phillipus Bernadus Wolvaart was granted ownership of 49 hectares of land, in what is now Paarl, by the Dutch East India Company. He called his new property Nederburgh and immediately set about clearing land and planting vines. By 1808 he had planted over 63,000 vines laying the foundations for what was to become the wine company we know today. Nederburg has changed hands many times through the years but was owned by the large South African wine and spirit company, Distell, for many years. Most recently, in 2023, Distell was taken over by Heineken and integrated into Heineken Beverages, a company created by the merger of Distell and Namibia Breweries. Since 2021 the team at Nederburg has been led by cellar master, and seasoned winemaker, Samuel Viljoen. he is ably assisted by winemakers Zinaschke Steyn, Imellia Prins and Jamie Williams. Nederburg remains one of South Africa’s most awarded wineries and their wines display a hallmark combination of fruit and finesse.

Only grapes affected with Noble Rot (the beneficial form of the Botrytis cinerea mould) are carefully hand-selected at harvest. Noble Rot basically dries out the grapes causing them to become slightly raisined. This concentrates the sweetness and the complexity of flavours and aromas in the grapes. 100% Weisser Riesling from Paarl.

The Nederburg Private Bin S316 Weisser Riesling Noble Late Harvest is an excellent example of a mature South African dessert wines. The peachy, apricot flavours of its youth have developed into deeper, orange marmalade-y flavours and aromas. it s quite honey-ed with lovely hints of pineapple and other tropical fruits.