sweet wine

katie1

evening all ,

does anyone know where i can buy a sweet wine , very sweet ?

DCFC79

Theres premier cotes de bordeaux(french), moscatel de valencia(spanish), some of the german wines eg piersporter, niersteiner, and theres sauternes (french),im sure theres more but this is all i can think of with my knowledge of sainsburys,

did you want sparkling as well

if its very sweet wines your after then maybe desert wines are what you need

ps ive tried the wines i mentioned and they are nice but moscatel is the sweetest

easter65

Moscatel is beautiful....Its a dessert wine and very very sweet....Its Gorgeous and nice mixed with lemonade if you find it too sweet. I make all my own wines for 4 years now but always buy Moscatel....Somerfield and Asda stock it around £3.49 per bottle.:D

juliescot

My local supermarkets, Tesco & Morrisons do sweet wine

DCFC79

katie1 wrote: »

evening all ,

does anyone know where i can buy a sweet wine , very sweet ?

you said where you can buy them, well any of the supermarkets sell them eg asda, tesco, sainsburys and morrisons will sell them, i know in sainsburys the wines are most likely done by country and the moscatel wine i mentioned is in a tall bottle which you cant miss

Enterprise_1701C

Just go for the ones that are described as desert wines, but be warned Sauteurnes is VERY sweet.

DCFC79

Katie1 ill try and find inof about sainsburys wine grading,

here you go, each of sainsburys own brand of wine has a different coloured top depending on whether its sweet, medium dry etc, the other brands of wine should say on the label if its sweet, i believe tesco have a numbered system in place eg 1 is dry and 9 is sweet

HTH

Victoriajayne

I can highly recommend the Moscatel De Valencia (£3.48) and the Moscatel De Valencia Rose (£3.99) from Tesco .... Morrisons also do a Rose Moscatel which is rather nice too. If you go to Tesco, just take a look at the Desssert Wines shelf :-)

nilrs

another thumbs up for moscatel

Meadows

How about Ice wine


Grapes for ice wine, still frozen on the vine


Ice wine (or icewine, as one word, or in German, Eiswein) is a type of dessert wine produced from grapes that have been frozen while still on the vine. The sugars and other dissolved solids do not freeze, but the water does, allowing a more concentrated grape must to be pressed from the frozen grapes, resulting in a smaller amount of more concentrated, very sweet wine. With ice wines, the freezing happens before the fermentation, not afterwards. Due to the labour-intense and risky production process resulting in relatively small amounts of wine, ice wines are generally quite expensive.

quoia

Meadows wrote: »

How about Ice wine


Grapes for ice wine, still frozen on the vine


Ice wine (or icewine, as one word, or in German, Eiswein) is a type of dessert wine produced from grapes that have been frozen while still on the vine. The sugars and other dissolved solids do not freeze, but the water does, allowing a more concentrated grape must to be pressed from the frozen grapes, resulting in a smaller amount of more concentrated, very sweet wine. With ice wines, the freezing happens before the fermentation, not afterwards. Due to the labour-intense and risky production process resulting in relatively small amounts of wine, ice wines are generally quite expensive.

Tasted some of this today at Costco

It was Jackson-Triggs 2007 Vidal Ice Wine

EXCEPTIONALLY FANTASTICALLY SUPERB :j

For a VERY SPECIAL OCCASION - where you need a sweet or dessert wine - I'd put this top of the list.

It's very liqueur like, a bit gloopy, but the taste is out of this world.

As posted above - IT AIN'T CHEAP !!!!

Just 25cl will set you back about £11 - putting that in terms of a normal bottle context of 75cl - it's £33 a bottle