Capitello Wines Dolcino Dessert Wine 09 375ml

2008 Vintage Tasting Notes

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Made by Ray Walsh, who was winemaker at King Estate from 1992 to 2005, this is a spectacular dessert wine, rich yet well balanced, with lovely fresh crisp acidity offsetting lush peach and apricot flavors to make a wine that is never cloying, superb with rich triple creme cheeses, fresh fruit, or try with roasted pecans.

Beautiful golden color, while offering aroma's of honey apricots nectarines, an intense floral-perfume. In the mouth, this wine is sweet, round and yet balanced with its acidity and explodes with fruit flavors apricot, peach and honeysuckle and a smooth lingering finish.

New Zealand winemaker Ray Walsh joined King Estate in 1993 to make their white wines, most famously, their Pinot gris. Walsh calls Pinot gris "a food wine" and describes the varietal as a wine that offers crisp and fruit-forward acidity. Leaving King Estate in 2005, Ray now runs his own winery, makes wine for Domaine Meriwether, and consults on a variety of distillation and wine making projects.