Home > Food and Drink > Wine > Glossary > Glossary (B) > Botrytis Cinerea

sign up for free membership
Register
today for full
access to InterSites ...


Botrytis Cinerea

The cause of Noble Rot, that afflicts grapes late in the harvest season, causing the grapes to dry and shrivel, concentrating the sugar in intensely sweet juice that makes memorable dessert wines. Manifests itself in the finished wine as a delicious honey-apricot flavour.

Bordeaux      Bottle Aging