Leo Bueno wrote:

> It is not all together clear to me whether late harvest wines are
> necessarily made from grapes attacked by the Botrytis fungus.
> Intuitively, I suspect one can just pick the berries after they have
> shriveled or cracked from freezing but have not necessarily been
> attacked by the fungus. Enlighten me please.

No, late harvest means just that: grapes harvested somewhere on the path
to becoming raisins (in the case of Recioto, perhaps all the way there).
It is certainly possible that they become botrytized, but that is a
separate issue. For instance, late harvest reds have never in my
experience had any botrytis character.

Mark Lipton