Dessert Red Wine

[parapaul]

At a friend's recently I was offered a glass of dessert wine. Except it wasn't the white I ws expecting, it was the sweetest red I've ever tasted and perfectly matched the dessert.

I only caught a glimpse of the label and TBH it looked suspiciously like Jacob's Creek.

Any ideas anyone?

[prand]

Erm - have you never tried Port, sherry or madeira before? There are plenty of red dessert wines out there, that aren't white/golden like Muscat or Sauternes. Very nice they are too...

[parapaul]

Yes, but all of those are fortified. This definitely wasn't anything like Port, it was, to the best of my descriptive ability, sweet red wine...

[smiller]

This stuff:



is to die for if you want a great dessert "wine".

[Mobile Chicane]

Banyuls? Supposedly the only dessert wine to go with chocolate, if that's what had you had

[Hedgeman]

Mas Amiel?

Like this one?

http://chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/2005/09/l...

[madala]

......love red dessert wines.....

[mj01]

Perhaps it was the Greek red dessert wine - Mavrodaphne?

[Noger]

Recioto della Valpolicella ?
Moscato Rosa ? The Fraanz-Haas one is quite sweet.

Dunno about Aussie sweet reds, although no doubt they exist. Beelgara do a sun-ripened red, but that is more Amarone than Dessert red.

[turbo-ww]

parapaul said:

At a friend's recently I was offered a glass of dessert wine. Except it wasn't the white I ws expecting, it was the sweetest red I've ever tasted and perfectly matched the dessert.

I only caught a glimpse of the label and TBH it looked suspiciously like Jacob's Creek.

Any ideas anyone?

Jacobs Creek do indeed make sweet reds. With the right food it can work, such as chocalate but depends on what dish the chocolate ends up as.

Limited quality, and limited appeal - Hence not much about.

They also make a sparkling sweet red, but the best flavour match for that is domestos.....

Stick to white and if you need a match for Sauternes, go no further than Fois Gras

[JayBM]

How about a Ice Wine from Niagra? Can thoroughly recommend the Peller Cabernet Franc as a red dessert wine, and the Vidal and Oak Aged are excellent whites!

www.peller.com

Enjoyed a bottle of the Cabernet Franc with Boxing Day pudding.

[Bebs]

Mobile Chicane said:

Banyuls?

Almost certainly. Lovely stuff.

[Alice Cupra]

If having a dessert wine I tend to go for Elysium, a Black Muscat.

http://www.quadywinery.com/elysium.html

And less than £6 a bottle at Costco.....

[aaak]

Best sweet red is a Monastrell, Castano Dulce from Yecla, Spain
Imported by Liberty Wines

[VTECMatt]

Noger said:

Recioto della Valpolicella ?

I have a few bottles of this, lovely stuff.