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special select LH

Special Select Late Harvest wines (known in Germany as Beerenauslese or Trockenbeerenauslese) have a minimum sugar at harvest of 35.0 Brix. The residual sugar is usually over 15.0% by weight. These wines are made from fruit totally affected with Botrytis, some berries fully raisined.
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