Sweet White Wine.. no?

connundrum

After a trip out to the family in Cape Town I discovered sweet white wine. Where has it been all my life? Why don't any pubs/off licences offer a sweet white option?

I honestly think that there would be a decent market for it here.

Please tell me if it is readily available, I have asked in all the pubs/clubs I frequent with no result. Most off licences just shrug and say 'we don't do sweet mate'.

Seriously, I will start importing it myself!

Blub2k4

Dessert wines are what you are looking for over this side, or try a German "eiswein".
They can be quite expensive however.

frobisher

Having good desert wine for the first time can be a bit of an epiphany alright!
Sauterne is regarded as the best and is one of my favourite pleasures in life. Hungarian Tokaji is very, very good too (look on the bottle for the number of "puttonyos", the more the sweeter. It's usuually sold in 50cl bottles.

There is also some good new world desert wines out there or as they say down under, a glass of sticky. Hhhmmm... As with robust reds, you're better off drinking less of it and paying a few quid more for a bottle that has a few years on it.

Should you ever get the chance to drink a glass of sauterne Chateau D'Yquem jump all over it. Divine!

Beruthiel

I'll only drink white wine if it's sweet

Sauterne is by far my favourite.
But I won't refuse Gewurztraminer or Muscadet.

The first two are normally want you would drink with frois gras,
the Muscadet for dessert.

The aromas coming off these wines are devine.

btw connundrum
I have found Sauterne and Muscadet over here, you have to search for it though.

jd

A liking for sweet white wine was something Charles Bukowski and the Queen mother had in common. I occassionally like a good dessert wine after dinner
jd

Kolodny

Marks and Spencers do a very nice Muscadet for about €8 a bottle.

MrPudding

Sauterne is good but I couldn't drink a whole bottle. Lucky it keeps for ages once opened.

Gewurztraminer is my fav white wine, not really sweet / dessert though. Just damned tasty. Smells like liquid potpourri.

MrP

killbillvol2

Eason Long Squeegee wrote:

Having said that, just yesterday I discovered some Crimean dessert wine in my local Russian outlet - 9 Euros for 75cl of raisiny, honeyed heaven.

Any details on that, so that I can see if my local Russians can source it?

Saruman

A lot of Rieslings are sweet!!! I love it too.. however i have had wine that is TOO sweet!!!
Got one in one of the big places like cellers or odbins.. cant remember what its called...
Also got one in Lanzarote.. a native one. At the tasting we thoght.. wow.. must have been the heat When we got home and tried it.. it was grand for a few moments then after drinking a little more i got sick of it.. too sweet.. like too much honey.

Anyway yes try Rieslings.. some are dry but a lot are sweet.

pjq

I'm not a lover of sweet wine but the Aldi ( St Dom....?) in a blue bottle , is a good Spätauslese . Some like it with a dash of mineral water . dont let the cheapness €6- put you off .
pjq

beardybrewer

You might try Lambrusco if you want to try a sweet, slightly bubbly red. A friend moved to Italy and this had him converted. Could be up your alley if you have a sweet tooth.

onlyfinewine

Firstly I apologise for correcting you, particularly as you are promoting wine and I am in the wine business, so I should really be applauding you! Most people would not know about the Gewurtztraminer or the other sweet German wines.


I agree about the Sauternes, also Barsac ( the first sweet wine I ever drank and I loved it like you do) and Loupiac are sweet wines from France, but the Muscadet is a very dry white wine usually drunk with shellfish, from the Loire region near Nantes.
Perhaps you mean Muscat or Moscatel, these are very sweet wines.

Port and Sherry, although not very much in favour at the moment, are forms of fortified wine and come in dry, medium and sweet styles. They are fabulous value, take years to age properly and finish off a meal to perfection. Try a Taylor's Late Bottled Vintage Port sometime , a bottle can be had for a bit more than a tenner in Tesco's--Ahhhh

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Heavenly...

Beruthiel wrote:

I'll only drink white wine if it's sweet

Sauterne is by far my favourite.
But I won't refuse Gewurztraminer or Muscadet.

The first two are normally want you would drink with frois gras,
the Muscadet for dessert.

The aromas coming off these wines are devine.

btw connundrum
I have found Sauterne and Muscadet over here, you have to search for it though.

rediguana

Go to Harvey Nichols. Dundrum. They sell a half bottle of "Essensia" for about E15. It's Californian. Sweet as. Moscatel, I think.

lostinsuperfunk

Aldi do a Sauternes for €10.99 (50cl) and I've heard it's good. They also have an Eiswein, but I don't know what it's like.

MrsA

I was in the Cloudy Bay vineyard in Marlborough New Zealand a few weeks ago and had the opportunity to taste their "sticky" it was like liquid Turkish Delight. The nicest one I have ever tasted. It was a 2005, and I am not sure if they ship it to Ireland, but, if you see one - make sure to give it a try.

MrsA