Kazakhstan

Assa Valley

Medium

Cork

White

This is lovely, with clear touches of floral honey, lychee and bouncing acidity. From a fully organic winery with very low sulphur use, at 2,500m above sea level in south-east Kazakhstan. It's a cold location with amazing biodiversity, where vines have to be buried in winter as in Ningxia. Kazakh Riesling is (so I am told) the same as Welschriesling, although this is a clone from the Soviet era that has been aged in 70% acacia and 30% oak. It has great length, not dominated by the barrels, although there's a slight hazelnut and straw edge. Organic specialist Patrick Soye is a consultant for the vineyard.

Welschriesling

Arba Wine, Kazakh Riesling, Assa Valley, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2014

This is lovely, with clear touches of floral honey, lychee and bouncing acidity. From a fully organic winery with very low sulph

Arba Wine, Kazakh Riesling, Assa Valley, Almaty, 2014

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