Gastronomic Recommendations

4 dessert wines to end your menu on a high note

By Marco Beteta - 2021-05-27T11:23:50Z
To delight your palate and elevate your favorite desserts, pairing them with wine is an experience you can't miss. You have surely heard of dessert wines, which are the stars of special moments in our lives. These wines are known for their high sugar content and high alcohol content; they are served during meals (especially with dessert and fruits). You can find wines with added sugar ranging from 50 to 400g per liter. According to their residual sugar level, dessert wines are usually classified as:dry (0 to 5g per liter)medium sweet (5 to 15)semi-dry (15 to 30)semi-sweet (30 to 50) sweet (50 or more)There is a wide variety of dessert wines, each with its own personality, that’s why here I share these 3 wine options that you must try. Rutherglen Muscat: it is one of the sweetest wines in the world.Moscato d’Asti: an Italian sparkling wine with a lot of personality.Ice Wine: it is unique in its kind, as it is produced only when the grapes freeze. The technique to achieve this grape involves leaving the grape to overripen on the vine, which is not harvested until the first frost occurs. When the grape freezes, the water expands and breaks the grape's skin. Thus, more water is lost and the sugar becomes more concentrated.Vintage Port: this sweet Portuguese wine is a mysterious phenomenon, it is a magical red produced in very limited quantities and only in a few years each decade.