Late harvest wine in the sun to concentrate their sugar. Late harvest wine Late harvest wine is wine made from grapes left on the vine longer than usual. "Late harvest" is usually an indication of a sweet dessert wine, such as late harvest Riesling. Late harvest grapes are often more similar to raisins, but have been naturally dehydrated while on the vine. Botrytis cinerea, or "noble rot", is a mold that causes grapes to lose nearly all of their water content. Wines made from botrytis-affected grapes are generally very sweet. Botrytis cinerea is a fungus that affects many wine grapes and causes them
Straw wine Czech wine law, is classified as a Predicate wine (Czech: "Jakostní víno s přívlastkem"). Czech regulations require the harvested grapes to come from a single wine sub-region, the grapes must be dried for at least three months either on straw or reed mats or hung in a well-ventilated space, and the must weight is required to reach at least 27° NM on the Normalizovaný moštomer scale. Straw wine in the Czech Republic is typically made from white grapes that are well-ripened and undamaged. Vin de Paille is the French for 'straw wine', made only in the ripest vintages. Perhaps the