where can i get one, how much?
French sauternes are excellent dessert wines and range in price from about $20-$50 per bottle or you can go for their vintage brands, which start at $100. Another dessert wine is the famed Trockens of the Rhine in Germany. These start at about $25 and go as high as several hundred for their vintage years. I recently had a Bernkastle Doktor-Thanish, 98, very intense, sweet yet clean and only slight syrup.
Some of the new port wines and sherries are also sweet, but they should not be confused with vintage spirits, which are prized for their dryness. The sweet ports such as tawny or ruby can be had for roughly $20-$25 per bottle. Sweet sherry or cream sherry can be had for around $20.
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The best sweet wines are the dessert wines, usually made by letting the grapes stay on the vine until the become almost like raisins, with the sugars concentrating. They can be found in any wine shop, just ask or look for the dessert wine section. Many are labeled "Late Havest" and come in smaller bottles. Also, port and other "fortified’ wines can be sweet. Some of the inexpensive wines have a sweet taste. I prefer the "ice wines" of Canada, where the grapes are left on the vines until the first frost. The sugars and the flavors become very intense. Then there is Boone’s Farm and that stuff with fruit flavors added, you know, that they advertise on TV.
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"Late Harvest" wines are sweeter. The most common is Late Harvest Riesling. It’s harvested later in the season so there’s more sugar in the grapes.
The sweetest wines are "Ice Wines" that are harvested so late that the grapes have frozen.
Both of these are usually slightly more expensive than regular wine. Ice wine comes in smaller bottles and is usually near port or sherry in stores.
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You’ll be safe sticking to dessert wines. I’m not much for sweet wines, but then again,you can’t go wrong with a Muscat. Gewurztraminers or Reislings…Santé
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Apart from when the grapes are left on the vine until they are almost dried (as the first two posts described), you can also get something called a Boytritis Riesling, at least in Australia and I’m presuming elsewhere in the world.
It’s where the grapes have been infected with a particular type of bacteria (Boytritis). The grapes ‘rot’ on the vine, and when pressed form a delciously sweet wine, much more concentrated, sweeter, and ‘stickier’ than other wines. Delicious, especially with some gorgonzola or blue vein cheese, providing a great contrast of how the right types of bacteria can make food taste great!
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French sauternes are excellent dessert wines and range in price from about $20-$50 per bottle or you can go for their vintage brands, which start at $100. Another dessert wine is the famed Trockens of the Rhine in Germany. These start at about $25 and go as high as several hundred for their vintage years. I recently had a Bernkastle Doktor-Thanish, 98, very intense, sweet yet clean and only slight syrup.
Some of the new port wines and sherries are also sweet, but they should not be confused with vintage spirits, which are prized for their dryness. The sweet ports such as tawny or ruby can be had for roughly $20-$25 per bottle. Sweet sherry or cream sherry can be had for around $20.
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zinfandel is not white wine. it is a red wine. and the pink stuff you are referring to is considered a rose.
if you want a very sweet white, you need to look towards wines label as late harvest, ice wines, etc. Muscat is very sweet, gewurztraminer is about equivailent of the riesling.
Quady Essensia Orange Muscat is very sweet like honey. It is from the central vally of california.
Robert Mondavi Mostcato D’Oro is sweet.
Inniskillin Ice wine tastes like apricots.
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