Château Vartely Chardonnay Dulce Alb (50cl in gift box) 2013
Valul lui Traian
Mundus Vini Competition, (Gold Medal)Concours Mondial De Bruxelles, (Silver Medal)Decanter, (96 Points)Decanter World Wine Awards, (Platinum Medal)International Wine Challenge, (Bronze Medal)International Wine Challenge, (Bronze Medal)International Wine Challenge, (Gold Medal)International Wine Contest Bucharest, (Grand Gold Medal)Mundus Vini, (Gold Medal)Mundus Vini, (Best in Show Title)
Here’s a wine you don’t see every day. Dessert wine from Moldova is as rare as hen’s teeth – even in Moldova. The few examples are ice wines – as far as winemaker Arcadie Fosnea knows, this is the only late harvest sticky that’s made in Moldova.
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Wine Details
- White - Luscious
Moldova- Rich gold with topaz hints
- Chardonnay
- 5.5 Units
- 11% ABV
- 31 December 2025
Flavour Profile
Tasting notes
Lusciously balanced between jammy white fruit and crisp acidity
Aroma
Intense notes of baked apple and peach with honeyed floral notes
Allergy information
Contains Sulphites
The Wine
Fancy challenging your wine loving friends at your next dinner party? Pour them a glass of this and ask them to identify the country or the grape (and we’d be very impressed if they even came close to either). It’s a late harvest Chardonnay from the impressive cellars of Château Vartely in the heart of Moldova. Though founded as recently as 2008, Château Vartely has already established itself as one of the country’s top wineries. To craft this unique wine, Arcadie Fosnea leaves the Chardonnay to partially dry on the vine prior to harvest. He stopped fermentation at 11% to retain the sweetness that helped the wine scoop Gold at Mundus Vini in Germany – a country well versed in late harvest wines. Ideal with desserts or the cheese board.
"I love to get people in the wine trade to taste this blind – no one believes it’s Moldovan!"
Beth Willard
Gold medal, late harvest Chardonnay from Moldova’s Château Vartely – it’s sumptuous stuff
