Amisfield Wine Company

About Riesling
Pronounced "rees- ling" is a white wine grape and the only prominent modern variety to have not originated in France. Germany is the traditional home of riesing where it is usually made into a sweet wine. Riesling is an aromatic variety and boasts a powerful fruit driven nose. When affected by botrytis Riesling can produce luscious desert wines. Young Rieslings will often have a green tinge to the usual light yellow and straw. Aged Rieslings will present as deeper yellows and slightly golden. Riesling is often described as steely or flinty which as associated with this variety firm crisp acid finish and the often strongly defined flavours. The wines are normally light to medium bodied and display it's primary fruit characters well.

Viticulture, climate and soil
Riesling tends to grow well in cooler continental climates, it is often found planted on stony, elevated blocks. Riesling is a variety which is highly "terroir-expressive", meaning that the character of Riesling wines is clearly influenced by the wine's place of origin.

Central Otago
Is one of the regions in the world which has a climate well suited to the variety. We have long hot days and cool evenings, we have mostly glacial and alluvial soils at a range of elevations creating the terraces Riesling thrives on.

Amisfield Wine Company
At Amisfield we make two Rieslings they are both planted in a small valley protected from the desiccating northwesterly winds. This combined with Lochar gravel soils gives our Rieslings great minerality and length to accompany intense stone fruit and citrus characters.

1. Amisfield Dry Riesling is cold fermented till almost dry, exclusively in stainless steel it is a wine with considerable ageing potential.

Amisfield Dry Riesling Style is: Intensely floral, ethereal, spicy, mineral, succulent dry palate with good acid spine.

Sub-Region - Pisa
Vineyard Designation - Amisfield Vineyard, Blocks 1 & 10

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2. Lowburn Terrace Riesling is picked early then fermented to only about 8% alcohol leaving approximately 55 grams of sugar per litre, making it a medium style but with incredible length and a bright acid finish.

Lowburn Terrace Riesling Style is balanced. The unctuous fruit characters of limes and blossoms are perfectly balanced with knife edged acidity and seamless minerality.

Sub-Region - Pisa
Vineyard Designation - Amisfield Vineyard

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