Dessert Wine
The tradition of serving wines with desserts is something that originated in italy.
Dessert wine. There are several ways do stop fermentations including super cooling the wine or adding brandy to it. Historically speaking though sweet wines were once the most coveted style of wine in all the world. To this day theyre still a fave especially when i wanna drink my dessert. Sweet wine comes from extra sweet grapes.
No really its true. Whether youre into drinking rose year round or love a sugary glass of moscato youll find the best sweet wines. It is mainly produced from semillon grapes though sauvignon blanc sauvignon gris and muscadelle may also be used in the blend. There is no simple definition of a dessert wine.
Barsac is a white dessert wine that gets its name from a small village south of bordeaux in the south west of france. While in most other countries it is a matter of etiquette to serve dessert with coffee or even tea in italy where diners tend to extend their meals wine has been a natural accompaniment to desserts. While many dessert wines exist there are a few that define the category ranging from less sweet to more sweet light to super boozy and best for youthful drinking to better when aged for decades. A guide to dessert wines.
It is soft and supple and seductive. So pair accordingly remembering that lighter wines pair nicely with light fare and that more substantial wines are needed with richer more deeply flavored desserts. There are a few options among reds that can change its bad wrap simply by a few tastes. Dessert wines run the gamut from light fizzy and off dry to dark full bodied and fortified with a few extra points of alcohol by volume.
Though you are a beginner at the sweet wine world it may take a soft push for some long term wine drinkers to try a sweet red because it may feel wrong at first. Exploring the world of fine wine is tricky if you have a sweet tooth as the most familiar and serious wines arent necessarily sweet. The 2011 vintage of carole bouquet passito di pantelleria sweet is a prime example of the savory side of dessert wines. Your love for sweet wine has just been validated.
To make a sweet wine the fermentation is stopped before the yeast converts all grape sugars into alcohol. With aromas of earl grey tea passion fruit and peach pie this wine has a perfect softness and persistence on the palate. In the uk a dessert wine is considered to be any sweet wine drunk with a meal as opposed to the white fortified wines fino and amontillado sherry drunk before the meal and the red fortified wines port and madeira drunk after it. Dessert wines sometimes called pudding wines in the united kingdom are sweet wines typically served with dessert.
Who would have thought that italians loved their sweet wines so much.