Chalmers Appassimento ‘Moscato Giallo’ 375ml 2021 schloss-lieser The Wine Front May

The Wine Front May

The average age of the vines that supply fruit for this wine is already impressive (50+ years old) and that number is significantly boosted this year by the addition of Marcoux's 100+ year old vines in Charbonnières

Concentrated black currant

making it a particularly elegant rendition of the appellation

Green pruning and working the soil without herbicides were the starting point

Chalmers Appassimento ‘Moscato Giallo’ 375ml 2021 schloss-lieser The Wine Front MayAt Chalmers we love a bit of variety and have always been intrigued by the many and varied Passito style sweet wines of Italy where grapes are dried before fermentation to concentrate the sugars and flavours. Its this love that set us on the path to make a Chalmers Appassimento. After early attempts beginning from 2005 with hand picked Moscato Giallo laid out to dry in the mid row or hung indoors on a wire, our first official dried grape dessert wine