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Auxerrois

Auxerrois is a full-bodied, yet fresh white grape hailing from Alsace, France. It has now also found a home in Germany and Austria, where it makes a very rich, almost musky, white wine. It’s an unforgiving grape which demands perfection in the winery, but made well and Auxerrois can be a knockout wine.

General Characteristics

Colour: White

Dryness: Dry

Tannin: Low

Body: Full

Acidity: Medium

ABV: Medium: 11.5-13.5%

Flavours: Chocolate Coffee Toffee Vanilla Beeswax Honey Bell Pepper Celery Gooseberry Nectarine Peach White Peach Pear Quince Apple Green Apple Flint Graphite Limestone Wet Chalk Wet Stone Cedar Oak Smoke Tobacco Grapefruit Lemon Lime

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