Frasqueiras Pereira D’Oliveiras Boal Medium Sweet (bottled 2013, 26yo) 1987 deviation-road This wine is off dry

This wine is off dry and continues the outstanding quality of previous vintages of our Te Whare Ra Gewürztraminer

Grapes for our Gutsriesling are harvested from the areas bordering our top classified sites on the Kiedrich Gräfenberg

gravelly loam over sandstone with some clay loam patches

It only rained moderately from mid-September to the end of October

citrus and peach

Frasqueiras Pereira D’Oliveiras Boal Medium Sweet (bottled 2013, 26yo) 1987 deviation-road This wine is off dryRich, raisined fruits are figgy with touches of maraschino and fat walnuts in a jam packed, luscious nose with toast and carob. It's grapey and succulent, but there's lift and freshness, too the smell of first rain after a long dry spell over fine old balsamic timber complexity. The twin tracked sweetness is beautifully rounded through two thirds of the palate, then planes out and becomes lighter, drier and more lingering. Nuts and dates slide along a