Organic Mostello dry pear dessert wine 2009 375ml – dessert wine from Farthofer Distillery

Organic Mostello Pear Dessert Wine

MOSTELLO is an innovative pear dessert wine composition and an invention from our own house. Inspired by port wine, we refine only the finest raw ingredients from our region – wine pears – using the port wine method. Whilst fortified wines worldwide mature in warehouses in very warm to hot regions, our MOSTELLO is stored and matured for at least one year in the cool, crisp air of the Alpine foothills. After several years of experimentation, the very first vintage was produced in 2005. This unique speciality was launched in 2014, following nine years of gentle maturation and careful storage.

Production

Four fully ripe and healthy indigenous Mostviertel pear varieties were harvested by hand and gently pressed. The juice was left to ferment, and the fermentation process was deliberately halted shortly afterwards by adding our own organic pear must distillate. This blend was then matured in used oak barrels: for at least three years in our Öhlinger cellar and for one year outdoors in the fresh Mostviertel air. With temperatures reaching up to +30 degrees in summer and as low as -20 degrees in winter, we thus capture unique flavours. This dessert wine is unfined and unfiltered, and is therefore bottled in its entirely natural state. There is exactly one cask of MOSTELLO 2005: this one was stored at the top of the pyramid in front of our distillery, resulting in a higher concentration of aromas due to the intense temperature fluctuations.

Aroma

Our Mostello is amber in colour, clear and slightly viscous. Ageing in barrique barrels results in a unique and exquisite pear dessert wine composition, reminiscent of honey wine on the nose. Intense aromas of dried fruit, characterised by notes of raisins, dried pears and honey. On the palate, intense notes of dried pears and honeyed sweetness, with delicate hints of almond. Highly concentrated, intense, juicy fruit with a well-integrated hint of oak.

Serving recommendation

Depending on your taste and preference, you can enjoy MOSTELLO at red wine temperature (18 degrees) or chilled (8 degrees) in the specially designed MOSTELLO glass. Serve it chilled with strong cheeses or citrus desserts, or at red wine temperature for special moments with loved ones.