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Vendange tardive

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How to Pronounce Vendanges Tardives? French (Alsace) Wine Pronunciation

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Vendange Tardive

Vendange tardive ("VT") means "late harvest" in French. The phrase refers to a style of dessert wine where the grapes are allowed to hang on the vine until they start to dehydrate. This process, called passerillage, concentrates the sugars in the juice and changes the flavours within it. The name is sometimes written as the plural form, vendanges tardives, referring to the fact that several runs through the vineyard is often necessary to produce such wines. In others countries such as Germany or Austria the term Spätlese is used to describe wine using the same making process.
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