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A Harvest Worth Waiting For – The Sweet WineRead this tip to make your life smarter, better, faster and wiser. LifeTips is the place to go when you need to know about Wine Harvesting and other Wines topics. A Harvest Worth Waiting For – The Sweet WineAfter a fine four-course meal, what better way to cap off the evening than with a sweet wine. One method of making a sweet wine is by picking the grape during a late harvest. The late harvest allows grapes to shrivel on the vine and creates a concentration of grape sugars due to dehydration. The method of utilizing a late harvest is common to South Africa, Australia, and Alsace, an eastern region of France. The Alsace winemakers have a coveted category of sweet wines called, vendange tardive, which must meet five criteria: 1. A declaration of intent must be made the Institut National des Appellations d'Origine (INAO), the governing organization which recognizes the geographic origin of an agricultural product. |
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