Spätlese

German

Riesling Spätlese

Etymology

spät (“late”) +‎ Lese (“harvest”) (obviously cognate with lesen (“to read, select, pick”), which yields a high-quality connotation)

Noun

Spätlese f (genitive Spätlese, plural Spätlesen)

  1. (literally) A late harvest, at the end of or after the normal harvesting season
  2. (metonymically) A (usually white) wine made from grapes which are purposefully harvested very late, so as to be extra sweet

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