Chardonnay 2012 for Ice Wine

by stasa cafuta trcek (text & photo)

Where: Radgonske gorice winery; Gornja Radgona, Slovenia
When: 2 February, 2012
What: Ice Wine Harvest & Sparkling & Predicate Wines Tasting

Radgonske gorice winery, known as the oldest Slovenian producer of sparkling wines, had for the fourteenth consecutive years, on the 2nd February, so called Svečnična (Feast) harvest.
Temperature was minus 7 for three days. It was a freezing feeling, but chardonnay was in very good raisins & botrytis condition. After harvest we were invited to the wine cellar and also tasted sparkling wine wintage 1979 – surprisingly alive.

My TOP

• Zlata radgonska penina 1979, extra dry
• Zlata radgonska penina 2006, extra dry
• Svečnično (Feast) wine Chardonnay 1999, TBA sweet

We tasted sparkling wines:

• Zlata radgonska penina 1979, extra dry
• Zlata radgonska penina 2004, extra dry
• Zlata radgonska penina 2006, extra dry
• Zlata radgonska penina Rose 2007, brut

We tasted predicate wines:

• Svečnično (Feast) wine Chardonnay 1997, TBA sweet
• Svečnično (Feast) wine Chardonnay 1999, TBA sweet
• Svečnično (Feast) wine Chardonnay 2009, TBA sweet

More: www.radgonske-gorice.si