As wine lovers, we can’t forget Botrytis cinerea, the grey mold known as Noble Rot that under the right circumstances can affect grape bunches to create ethereally sweet wines such as Sauternes ...

Where most prestige grapes hang their hat on a single flavor ... to both warm and cool climates and is capable of making noble wines at both ends of the ripeness spectrum. Even the most brisk ...

(The phrase noble rot refers to a fungus deliberately injected into some types of grapes to make the resulting wine much sweeter. Keeling adapted it, saying, “We just loved the contrast of the ...

Grapes properly affected by this fungus ... Advertising Tokaji is not the only Botryized wine in the world; wines affected by noble rot also are produced in France, Germany, Romania, and even ...

Of the six, Furmint and Hárslevelű are the most susceptible to noble rot, making them the backbone of the varietal blend in ...

The grapes falling prey to “Noble Rot” In regular azsú wines, botrytized grapes are collected in large baskets known as puttony and added to 136-liter barrels of base wine. The number of ...