Dessert wines can be referred as sweet wines. There are no specific definitions for dessert wines as it depends on the country where it is produced. In UK dessert wines are know as pudding wines and stickies in Australia. When compared to table wines, dessert wines are sweeter, richer, and thicker.
Pudding wines prepared in UK are very famous during the Christmas season. This wine is prepared from grape varieties that produce more sugar. And alcohol is added during the fermentation process. Some of the general flavors of pudding wines are oak, herbs, almond, and peach. The flavors are strong, sweet and full of character.
Australia Sticks has a runny honey texture .The traditional technique that is used in the sticks preparation is the concentration of grape sugars and naturally occurring fungus. The botrytis cineria attack grapes and gradually extract the moisture from the berry and improves the sugar concentration, acidity and fruit flavor.
Dessert wines are of two types, they are fortified and unfortified wines. The sweetness of the wine is usually determined by the addition of alcohol to it. The sooner the alcohol is added the sweeter the wine will be.
Some of the well known dessert wines are
Fortified dessert wines
- Sherry from Spain
- Marsala from Italy
- Port from Portugal
- Madeira from Portugal
- Vin doux naturel from France
Unfortified dessert wines
- Sauternes from France
- Beerenauslese from Germany
- Eiswein from Germany
- Trockenbeerenauslese from Germany
- Champagne Doux from France
Generally dessert wines are served after the meal along with fruits and bakery items. The thumb rule says that sweetness is a taste possessed for dessert, so dessert wine itself is a good dessert.
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