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Dessert / Sweet Wines | Prices, Types & Reviews

Written By: Brian Freedman on Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Sweet wines, when made well, are some of the most rewarding and intensely-flavored wines on the market. As opposed to the cheaply made wines that were popular in the United States through most of the 50's and 60's, real sweet or dessert wines are as sophisticated as even the finest dry wines from, say, Bordeaux or Burgundy. Sadly, many people...read more
 

Port Wines | Prices, Types & Reviews

Written By: Brian Freedman on Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Port is the sweet, fortified wine for which Portugal is famous. Like Champagne, Port must be made only in a specific part of the country and through a process that has been strictly defined by law. Essentially, this somewhat syrupy, wonderfully soothing dessert drink is made by adding brandy to a wine whose sugars are only partially fermented....read more
 

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Eiswein Wines | Prices, Types & Reviews

Written By: Brian Freedman on Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Eiswein is the famous dessert wine of Germany. The process by which it is made relies entirely on the largesse of Mother Nature. Simply put, bunches of grapes are left on the vine until they freeze. When this happens, they are picked and crushed immediately, a process that leaves the ice crystals behind and results solely in the sweet grape...read more
 

Madeira Wines | Prices, Types & Reviews

Written By: Brian Freedman on Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Madeira is an island between the coasts of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa that belongs to Portugal. It is also the fortified wine made there. One might legitimately claim that the island is so well known for no other reason than the sweet wine that is produced there.

Much like Port, Madeira is a wine whose fermentation has been halted by...

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Other Dessert Wines | Prices, Types & Reviews

Written By: Brian Freedman on Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Dessert wines were very popular in the United States around the middle of the 20th Century. Then, as the American palate developed an affinity for dry wines, dessert wines fell out of favor. But lately, they have seen a resurgence, and as a result, there is a greater selection now than there ever has been before for the connoisseur of classic...read more
 

Muscat Wines | Prices, Types & Reviews

Written By: Brian Freedman on Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Muscat is both a grape variety and a style of dessert wine made from that variety. The dessert wine, known variously as Muscat, Moscato, and Moscatel, among others, can be produced via any number of processes, including fortifying the base wine, harvesting the grapes late so that their juices are concentrated, and the same processes employed in...read more
 

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Sauternes Wines | Prices, Types & Reviews

Written By: Brian Freedman on Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Considered by many to be the greatest dessert wine in the world, Sauternes are made in the Bordeaux region of France from Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc grapes that have, if the weather is just right, been infected by the fungus Botrytis Cinerea, or Noble Rot. This fungus causes the grapes to shrivel, concentrating their juices and imparting to...read more
 

Fonseca Vintage Port 2003

Written By: Brian Freedman on Thursday, August 23, 2007

This wine is not for the faint of heart—or the shallow of wallet. In fact, don’t even think of buying this wine if you don’t have a cellar to store it in, unless you want to experience for yourself what all the fuss is about right now. 2003, after all, will go down as one of the great recent vintages for Port. And while the best of them—and...

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French Wines | Prices, Types & Reviews

Written By: Brian Freedman on Monday, July 31, 2006
Wines have been made in France for thousands of years. Perhaps this is one of the reasons French wines are some of the most sought-after in the world: The French have practice, and with wine traditions that go back as far as theirs do, French winemakers have had plenty of time to discover what works best for them.

But French wines are, of...

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Tasting Etiquette

Written By: Brian Freedman on Monday, July 23, 2007

Or, Why It's Not A Frat Party

One of the most exciting trends in the world of wine these days is the popularity of tastings. And not the kind that most people imagine—those gatherings of ascot-clad men pretentiously picking apart the relative merits of obscure and overpriced wines, all the while smirking at the few poor souls who happened to...

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