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  Dessert Wine - Quady Elysium Black Muscat 375ml Dessert Wine - 20403
On the red side the general rule of thumb is to serve dessert wines that are sweeter than the dessert.
If the dessert wine is sweeter than the dessert you don't notice the change in the wines acidity as much.
Many times it is assumed that a sweet wine will combine with the sweetness of the dessert but actually it is just the opposite.
www.wineglobe.com /20403.html   (515 words)

  
  Dessert wine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dessert wines are those wines which are typically served with dessert, although they are also drunk on their own, i.e.
Despite their name, many of these wines are not particularly well suited for consumption with desserts but are more suitably consumed on their own or with very rich savoury foods such as foie gras.
Additionally dessert wines are drunk with pudding, as they are thought to bring out the flavor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dessert_wine   (280 words)

  
 Affordable Dessert Wines on StarChefs
Dessert wines make a great finale, but many are priced out of my everyday range - and usually with good reason.
Their Passito is actually produced by combining two common sweet wine techniques: raisinating the grapes to intensifiy sweetness and aroma, and fortification to raise the alcohol level and stop fermentation, leaving some residual sugar.
Beyond the somewhat typical dessert wine aromas of dates and apricot, this wine showed some surprisingly bright and fresh citrus notes, as well as a slice of green apple.
starchefs.com /wine/features/html/dessert_wines.shtml   (1239 words)

  
 Wine with Dessert by Joe Abuso
Dessert wines, though rarely served, can be a great ending to any special dinner.
This is a fortified wine from the Rhône region in France, made from the Muscat de Frontignan grape.
First, the wine is sweeter than if the fermentation had run its course and turned all of the sugar into alcohol (as in the making of dry wines), and second, the wine is more alcoholic, typically between 15 and 18 percent versus about 12 percent for most wines.
www.abusocatering.com /Articles/dessertwine.html   (1026 words)

  
 Dessert wines and recipes for Apple Tart, Apple Pear Pie, and Baked apples on StarChefs.
Dessert wines are a mystery to many, fueled by the myth that dry wines are the more sophisticated choice.
In fact, dessert wines can be a treat on their own or they can enhance the enjoyment of what is arguably the best part of the meal.
A dessert wine that is sweet with low acidity would seem cloying and almost syrupy, while a dessert wine that is sweet with high acid will be luscious, yet delicate on the palate.
www.starchefs.com /wine/features/html/fall_fruit_dessert_wine.shtml   (363 words)

  
 Dessert Wine
Dessert wines that have been aged to perfection, when drunk, is like a rainbow of icicles bursting in one’s mouth at just the right moment.
Dessert wines were made to be consumed with dessert or as dessert, and a bottle makes a perfect gift.
Dessert wine and other fine sweet varieties are available in our online store, and for your convenience we have made it easy for you to find them—simply choose dessert under food choices and you’ll be confronted with a list of fine dessert and aperitif bottles.
www.primewines.com /Buy-Wine-Online/Dessert_Wines.htm   (480 words)

  
 Cook's Thesaurus: Dessert Wines
Examples include fortified wines like port and sherry, and late harvest wines, which are made from grapes that have shriveled a bit, concentrating their sweetness.
As a rule of thumb, a dessert wine should always be sweeter than the dessert it accompanies.
Ice wine = icewine = eiswein is an especially sweet and expensive kind of late harvest wine in which the dehydrated grapes are allowed to freeze on the vine, resulting in a very sweet wine.
www.foodsubs.com /WinesDessert.html   (491 words)

  
 Dessert wine a sweet finish
In general, dessert wines are thicker, richer and sweeter than table wines.
Like dinner wines, white dessert wines are generally served chilled, while reds are served at room temperature or slightly chilled.
Here are some popular dessert wines and what they can be paired with, according to Brian Mahoney of House Wines and Cheese.
www.azcentral.com /home/wine/articles/1231dessertwines31.html   (320 words)

  
 Vinography: A Wine Blog: Dessert Wine Archives
In the mouth the wine is silky and viscous, with a good modicum of acidity, and a surprisingly mellow sweetness that swirls in complex flavors of exotic honeys, caramel, candied dandelion (ok maybe that's a little excessive on the adjectives), and the reduced concentrated essence of white grapes.
This wine is a light gold color in the glass with hints of brown and has a honeyed nose of candied lychee fruit, a scent which becomes the dominant flavor of the wine.
This wine is a single vineyard designate from the Heimbourg vineyard near Turckheim, a medieval village on the banks of the Fecht river.
www.vinography.com /archives/dessert_wine/index.html   (6792 words)

  
 Wine Australia - Wine Styles - Dessert Wines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
In typically Australian larrikin fashion, the custom of assigning nicknames to favoured friends has been extended to these wines which are affectionately known as “stickies”: a reference that captures the luscious “sticky” texture of these wines which slide like runny honey over the palate.
Dessert wine of almost ambrosial concentration and never without a tingling tang of acidity to balance it.
In either case, the perfumed rich intensity of these wines, still with their racy acidity, is little short of magnificent.
www.wineaustralia.com /global/WineStyles/WineGroup.aspx?p=35   (635 words)

  
 Basic Juice - the wine blog for my generation: dessert wine
In addition to sweet wines, many winemakers in Rust are also producing interesting dry wines on the gentle slopes further away from the lake where botrytis is less common.
2003 Solitare - This wine is a cuvee of Blaufränkisch, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Zweigelt.
Wine is bottled only on demand and Seppelt still has unbottled stock for all years back to 1878.
basicjuice.blogs.com /basicjuice/dessert_wine   (3380 words)

  
 Dessert Wine List - Blue Heron French Cheese Company - 800-275-0639
This is a concentrated intensely flavored dessert wine.
Pressed from late-harvest, frozen Gewurztraminer grapes, this wine is unctuous, honeyed and spicy on the palate, with flavors reminiscent of apricots and guavas.
This wine has a ãfoxyä wild grape flavor which produces a young sweet red wine that is light, sweet, fresh and fruity.
www.blueheronoregon.com /wine/dessert/dessert.html   (637 words)

  
 *Northwest Sweet and Dessert Wine
Far too many late harvest-style wines seem to offer intense sweetness as the measure of quality, when in fact it is varietal flavor that is the hallmark of greatness in late harvest wines.
Andrew's wine serves up a wonderful example of Gewurztraminer's apricot and nectarine fruitiness, along with hints of tart orange and a tangy allspice and clove-infused honey character that is simply delicious.
While this wine is more like a fruit liqueur than a wine, it has an undeniably appealing, in-your-face raspberry concentration and an incredibly lingering finish as the essence of the fruit stays in your mouth seemingly forever.
northwest-wine.com /Sweet-Dessert-Wine.php   (3714 words)

  
 WINES: Dessert Wine
While the classification of "dessert" wines can include any number of things, this is where we'll deal with those wines that are affected by "the rot." Not just any rot, however, but the "noble rot,"Botrytis cinerea, a mold which causes the vine disease called grey rot.
Such wines won't have the Botrytis flavor which itself is a wonderful component of Botrytis affected wines--so long as you don't take it to an extreme, for wines overly affected by Botrytis can taste like shoe polish in early stages.
This is how the fortified sweet wines such as Port, sweet Sherry, Malaga, Madeira, Marsala, and the "vins doux naturels" (naturally sweet wines) of the south of France are made.
www.sbwines.com /usenet_winefaq/dessertwines.html   (1269 words)

  
 Winemonger.com / Dessert Wine and Sweet Wine
Dessert wine categories are Icewine, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese, Ruster Ausbruch.
Beerenauslese ("BA") is the dessert wine with the least amount of sugar.
Trockenbeerenauslese ("TBA") is the dessert wine with the highest concentration of residual sugar.
www.winemonger.com /catalog/index.php?cPath=156   (284 words)

  
 Riedel Sommeliers Sauternes/Dessert Wine Glass (1) - Wine Enthusiast
Riedel Sommeliers wine glasses are the benchmark and the most successful series of hand-made glasses in the world.
Each Sommeliers wine glass is individually made of 24% lead crystal: the wine glass bowls are mouth-blown into a mould, the stem and base are handcrafted using ancient glass-making methods.
The Riedel Sommeliers Sauternes / Dessert wine glass is designed to emphasize acidity of sweet wines, thus balancing the wine’s sweetness and luscious finish.
www.wineenthusiast.com /sdx/113656.asp   (192 words)

  
 Dessert Wine Reviews
Dating back some 8,000 years, mead is argued to be the oldest alcoholic beverage known to man. A substance made from the fermentation of honey, it spans the legends of history claiming to be everything from the favorite drink of the Norse Gods to the wine referred to by Shakespeare.
Made from fruit generally sourced over two or three vintages, the wine spends three to five years in cask and is then put into bottle, where it is ready to drink (unlike the pricey vintage Ports) and is absolutely perfect when paired with all things chocolate.
These wines are ready to drink as soon as they are released and because they’ve been exposed to oxygen so long, they generally last longer in the bottle when opened than any other type of Port.
www.nomerlot.com /reviews/dessert-wine   (658 words)

  
 TableWine Forum: Food pairing with dessert wine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
I haven't had a lot of experience with dessert wines, but I think the concept of pairing is the same as with other types of wine.
The goal is to try to match a characteristic of the wine with the dessert.
For example, some Port wines have a nutty characteristic and might be nicely paired with a pecan pie or something with walnuts in it.
www.tablewine.com /discus/messages/4/604.html?1086282452   (223 words)

  
 Cooking Light - Dessert-worthy Ice Wines - Healthy Recipes and Menus
Among the dozens of types of dessert wines in the world, one of my favorites is eiswein, or ice wine.
Regardless of the source, ice wine is produced by letting the grapes hang on the vine long after the normal harvest, usually well into December or January.
Because of the concentrated taste, ice wine is one of the most elegant and refined dessert wines.
www.cookinglight.com /cooking/mp/wine/article/0,13803,1115060,00.html   (590 words)

  
 Northwest Sweet and Dessert Wine
This apricot-colored wine is softly sweet (5% residual sugar), and carries an interesting light fruitiness reminiscent of apricots and nectarines.
This highly unusual wine is lightly colored with an orangey brown and strawberry redness reminiscent of an older tawny port, and has aromas of nuts, plums, and toasty, smoky wood.
In the mouth the wine has a big hot and sweet style (which comes from the 18% alcohol and 13.4% residual sugar), with a rich plumy fruitiness.
www.northwest-wine.com /northwestwinesweetanddessert.html   (2498 words)

  
 dessert wine Definition in the Wine Dictionary at Epicurious.com
Generally speaking any of a wide variety of sweet wines (sometimes fortified with brandy), all of which are compatible with desserts.
More specifically in the United States, dessert wine is a legal term referring to all
wines (whether or not sweet), which typically range from 16 to 21 percent in
www.epicurious.com /drinking/wine_dictionary/entry?id=6210   (220 words)

  
 Best Producers: Canadian Dessert Wine
Most of Canada's Icewine is produced on the Niagara Peninsula, a designated, cool growing region that can always count on a sustained cold spell in January to freeze Riesling or Vidal grapes on the vine.
These grapes, when pressed in their frozen state, produce extraordinarily concentrated sweet wines with enough acidity to keep them fresh and uncloying.
US consumers have not yet been urged to seek these gems by the mainstream media; hence, they are not in widespread distribution.
www.tastings.com /wine/best_producers/canada_dessert.html   (195 words)

  
 Dessert Wine Club
Wine Club members get first priority in reordering from our limited supply of top rated Club wines.
Choose whether to ship each month's selection, batch several months' wines into one shipment, cellar over the hot summer (no charge), and choose the best rates for you.
We're famililar with the byzantine wine shipping laws, and can guide you through them so you can get your wine where you want it to go.
www.avalonwine.com /wineclubs_nwsweetanddessert.php   (410 words)

  
 GotFruit.com - California Dessert Wine Gifts
Serve up one of these excellent dessert wines at the end of a meal or to make your next Sunday brunch memorably easy, yet spectacular.
The grapes used to make these wines are harvested late in the season, so extra sugars make them perfect for sipping.
Wine shipments cannot be left without a signature.
www.gotfruit.com /dessert_wine_gifts.html   (286 words)

  
 Wine And Dessert Pairings - Matching Wine With Desserts - THE NIBBLE Gourmet Food Magazine
“Dessert” is such an expansive category with so many different flavors, that it takes more than a dozen wines to successfully pair the basics.
Wines that let the fragrance grow on the palate are best: Torcolato (Veneto) or a German Riesling from Pfalz.
Wine and Food Pairing: The dessert section is not to be missed.
www.thenibble.com /reviews/main/wine/dessert-pairings.asp   (720 words)

  
 Dessert Wine Glossary Term
Any variety of wine with an alcohol content that ranges between 14% and 24%, or that has a high-alcohol content that occurs naturally.
This wine will generally be sweet in flavor and smooth in taste.
Grapes for dessert wines have been grown and processed so the sugars are concentrated in the grape enabling a higher level of alcohol and sweet flavor.
www.recipetips.com /glossary-term/t--37507/Dessert-Wine.asp   (108 words)

  
 IS-WINE'S PRODUCTS - DESSERT WINE
A special wine from the south of France.
A rich, tawny dessert wine from the Banyuls region of southern France that is a
A wonderful dessert Riesling from a small producer, this one has nice fruit and good acidity.
www.is-wine.com /PRODUCTSdessert.html   (349 words)

  
 Italy Dessert Wines -- Wine Review Archives WineSkinny.com
Luscious apricot, mandarin, honey and cream are sweet, ripe and full-bodied in this dessert wine, with a long, complex, lingering finish.
Visciola – This is a dessert wine made from an ancient recipe that combines visciola fruit (similar to a prune in flavor and intensity), red wine, and sugar.
The wine is intense violet red in color, with a heady fragrance.
www.wineskinny.com /wine_review_archives/archive_italydessert.htm   (276 words)

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