Category Archives: Desert wine

Villa Schinosa, Moscato di Trani, 2019, Italy

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Villa Schinosa, Moscato di Trani, 2019, Italy

Villa Schinosa, Moscato di Trani, 2019, Italy0

 

Don’t be seduced by the sugar a head judge once said to his young judges on their first judging competition and this dessert wine from villa schinosa is a good example. Loads of honey and rich tropical fruit flavours with good length it goes a little over the top on its components. It’s a little too rich and too sugary taking away any delicacy it could have. Sure at yhe end of a mesl with the wine flowing all night this may not be an issue especially with the right dessert. At £19 per 500ml bottle it’s not massively expensive but for me the LFE dessert wine from Majestic Wine at £7 per half bottle is much better.

Elysium, Black Muscat, 2018, California, USA

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Elysium, Black Muscat, 2018, California, USA

Elysium, Black Muscat, 2018, California, USA

 

Elysium, Black Muscat, 2018, California, USAA rather good desert wine is how best to describe this wine from Elysium. Made with black Muscat grapes there’s lots of plum with a dollop of chocolate in each glass’s. It’s sweet but it’s not sticky or sickly. We’ll balanced and very drinkable. At £14 a half bottle it’s decent value

Chateau Bellerive, Quarts de Chaume, 2005, Loire, France

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Chateau Bellerive, Quarts de Chaume, 2005, Loire, France

Chateau Bellerive, Quarts de Chaume, 2005, Loire, France

I loved this wine from Chateau Bellerive in the Loire, it was AMAZING, lush and full of flavour. Whats best is this desert wine is in a full sized bottle – magic.

There are flavours and aromas of honey, marmalade, peach, orange and mineral undertones that are well balanced and not over powered by sweetness. At £40 a bottle its well worth trying and taking your time over it. Have it with fresh fruit to bring out the best.

Domaine Cazes, Rivesaltes, Ambre, 1997, France

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Domaine Cazes, Rivesaltes, Ambre, 1997, France

Domaine Cazes, Rivesaltes, Ambre, 1997, France

Domaine Cazes knows about desert wines and their Rivesaltes, Ambre, 1997 shows just how brilliant they are at making wine and that’s an understatement. It’s like the Bentley of the wine world. Classy in so many ways.

You get aromas of orange, citrus, chocolate with a smokie undertone and a chunk of raisin. There’s flavours of dried fruit with honey, stone fruits, citrus and a caramelised oaky note that is quite frankly amazing.

Sure at £20 a bottle it’s not cheap but it’s brilliant.

Royal Tokaji, Late Harvest, 2017, Hungary

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Royal Tokaji, Late Harvest, 2017, Hungary

Royal Tokaji, Late Harvest, 2017, Hungary

Late harvest wines can be very sweet and you are seduced by the sugar. This one from Royal Tokaji is more balanced better finesse. There are aromas of peach, blossom you get ripe tropical fruits on the palate it’s a grown up dessert wine that’s pretty damn good and the best bit, £11 at majestic you can’t go wrong. It’s the Goldilocks of dessert wines, good price, excellent taste.

 

Keo, St John’s Commandaria, Cyprus

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Keo, St John's Commandaria, Cyprus

Keo, St John’s Commandaria, Cyprus

This St John’s Commandaria from Cyprus is made usinf grapes that have been dried in the sun and allowed to concentrate the sugars so the wine has a raisin, nutty full on flavours that are similar to PX sherry and that no bad thing.

Sip it, savour it and have small glasses, oh try it with cheese its a great match.

Tsiakkas winery, Commandaria, Desert Wine, Cyprus

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Tsiakkas winery, Commandaria, Desert Wine, Cyprus

Tsiakkas winery, Commandaria, Desert Wine, Cyprus

Almost any country can grow grapes and make wine good wine on the other hand is harder to make, cypress can make flipping good wine as this Commandaria, desert wine from Tsiakkas winery shows. It’s a deep rich colour with the aromas of citrus, apricot, dried figs and raisins which follows through into the flavours and is joined with a toffee undernote. There’s definite sweetness which sticks to the mouth but isn’t sickly, it is quite fantastic.

We sit on its own and had it with cheese which was just magical. An amazing dessert wine that I’d be happy to drink the rest of my life.

Domaine Richou, La Grande Selection, Loire, France

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Domaine Richou, la Grande Selection, Loire, France

Domaine Richou, la Grande Selection, Loire, France

I like Domaine Richou wines and this desert wine is interesting. It’s sweet but not sticky in the flavours are defined but not overpowering. You get some honey and apricot but these are subtle, there’s a little bit of oxidization but only a hints, but that’s because we’ve left it too long. The deep orange colour is quite unusual but this does not attract from wine.

 

Château Pierre-Bise, Coteaux du Layon-Beaulieu, Clos de la Soucherie, 2005, Loire, France

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Château Pierre-Bise, Coteaux du Layon-Beaulieu, Clos de la Soucherie, 2005, Loire, France

Château Pierre-Bise, Coteaux du Layon-Beaulieu, Clos de la Soucherie, 2005, Loire, France

Sometimes there’s a wine that is so good, so yummy that you savour every drop and this Château Pierre-Bise, Coteaux du Layon-Beaulieu, Clos de la Soucherie, a desert wine is one of these.

Its got aromas of baked fruits, raisins and these just hang there. The taste is rich all round with the baked fruit coming though, its not overly sticky but each drop is full of flavour. I could go on about who fabulous this is but I would just drink it.

Wonderful with cheese or on its own.

Morris, Black Label, Muscat, Rutherglen, Australia

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Rutherglen produce some great desert wines and many are different to the sticky white wines.

This is the shortest review I’ve done – this is a dark, sweet, rich, with raisin abound flavours and utterly delicious. Great with cheese and rich deserts. Oh Christmas is a great time to try this!

At £20 for 500ml, its great value and quite fabulous, but it did evaporate in the glass!

Morris, Black Label, Muscat, Rutherglen, Australia

Morris, Black Label, Muscat, Rutherglen, Australia