WINE REVIEW
Sweet English wines are relatively few and far between, but I was really keen to try this one having been really impressed with both Burn Valley’s unoaked and oaked expressions of Solaris. Burn Valley harvest the Solaris grapes for this wine as late as possible and then ferment in stainless steel – the resulting wine has an indulgent 112g/l of residual sugar.
The nose is rich with ripe stone fruit and tropics, apricot, peach and mango aromas with a honeysuckle aroma.
The palate is fruity and rounded with a delicious nectar-like sweetness. There’s lots of peach and mango, with lemon and lime cutting through the sweetness.
Perhaps not quite as indulgent as international examples of dessert wine, nevertheless, it is dangerously drinkable thanks to a burst of acidity that balances the wine perfectly!
