Dessert Wine

Dessert wines (or pudding wines) are sweet wines typically served with dessert, such as Sauternes and Tokaji Aszú. Despite the name, they are often best appreciated alone, or with some simple fruit, bakery sweets or foie gras.

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19 California Dessert Wine

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Borghese Vineyard

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2007 Castello di Borghese Allegra Dessert Wine
Estate bottled at Long Island's first and finest

Upon harvest the grapes were frozen to concentrate their natural sugars and juice, and then pressed while frozen to yield a juice of 36.2 Brix. Bright and reflective yellow-golden color. Lively nose of oranges, baked pineapple, passion fruit, meyer lemon, pears, and honey. A very well-balanced palate with generous but fluid sweetness and a racy acidity. Will age very well.

^$36.00

Favero Vineyards	Rate this wine
Moscato Produced in 2005, our Moscato Del Millenio is a delicious dessert wine.

Mount Palomar Winery

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Solera Cream Sherry

Since 1978 Mount Palomar has produced handcrafted sherry wines in our outdoor aging solera. This is a forgotten winemaking method in California that harkens back to an earlier era. Using the classic Palomino variety and patient aging of at least three years under the sun creates rich, almond caramel and hazelnut flavors and a long smooth finish.

Many people enjoy this Sherry as a simple aperitif or with shortbread cookies or roasted almonds, but it is also a good match for Baklava and similar desserts.

^$29.00

Bargetto Winery	Rate this wine
2006 Orange Muscat All of the Muscat varieties have a very distinctive floral aroma. Orange Muscat is no exception in this case the aroma of Seville oranges predominates. To me this wine is reminiscent of orange marmalade on hot cinnamon rolls. Being a dessert wine this wine is sweet, but not cloyingly so.	^$18.00

Bargetto Winery

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Chaucer's Cellers Mead

This wine is produced utilizing fresh honey without the addition of artificial flavorings, concentrates or artificial colorings. Even though greater production difficulties ensue because pure, raw honey is used for fermentation, the intensity of flavor generated through this technique is worth the effort. Although this wine exhibits richness similar to a fine liqueur, this dessert-style beverage is not fortified and contains only 11% alcohol. Hence, this wine should be consumed shortly after purchase to enjoy its natural and rich flavor.

^$15.00

Bargetto Winery	Rate this wine
Chaucer's Cellers Pomegranate Wine With fruit sourced from orchards in the southern San Joaquin Valley of California, this dessert-style wine has a silky elegance in the flavor profile. Being quite versatile, you can enjoy this wine by itself, as a spritzer, splashed into a sparkling wine...or even to liven up a martini!	^$15.00

Bargetto Winery

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Chaucer's Cellers Olallieberry Wine

"Olallie" is a word for berry that was used the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest. An olallieberry is a hybrid cross of a loganberry and a youngberry which are both crosses themselves (loganberry = raspberry X blackberry; youngberry = blackberry X Texas dewberry). Because the olallieberry has blackberry forbearers on both sides of its parentage, it is not surprising that it exhibits many of the same flavor characteristics. However, olallieberries are much larger in size and generally are sweeter than blackberries grown under the same conditions. Although this wine exhibits richness similar to a fine liqueur, this specialty dessert-style beverage is not fortified and contains only 10.5% alcohol. Hence, this wine should be consumed shortly after purchase to enjoy its natural and rich fruit flavor. Also, it is recommended to refrigerate this delicate product after opening.

^$15.00

Milano Family Winery	1 reviews
2004 Late Harvest Zinfandel Addor Vineyards, Talmage Bench. This is a sweet lover’s paradise Residual sugar is 11.3%, 13.4% alcohol. Bursting with fruit, blackberries, rose petals and orange blossoms. Available in 500 ml bottles.	^$30.00

Boeger Winery	Rate this wine
2005 Rubies El Dorado This wine is made in a style similar to dessert wines in Portugal, but with untraditional grapes: Refosco and Charbono. Lush fruit characteristics are accented by notes of honey, making this a superb accompaniment to dessert or wonderful on its own.	^$35.00

Long Meadow Ranch Winery

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2005 LMR Cabernet Sauvignon Grappa
Rutherford

In 2005, a portion of LMR’s mountain cabernet sauvignon pomace was delivered to highly regarded St. George Spirits in Alameda to be distilled into grappa. With juice still in the skins, this grappa was made using St. George Spirits’ steam jacketed small copper pot stills under the watchful eye of seasoned distiller Dave Smith. The pomace was distilled just long enough to derive the classic LMR red berry and black cherry characters. ****Only available for shipment in California****

Beautifully crystal clear. Aromas of green apple, bell peppers and classic LMR black cherry. Flavors are lush and earthy with nutmeg and clove. Finishes cleanly with the verdant essence of a spring morning after a night of rain. -Dave Smith

^$35.00

Mokelumne Glen Vineyards	Rate this wine
2006 Dreirebe Lodi Dreirebe (DRY-reh-beh) is a late harvest proprietary blend of varieties from our German Collection. It has a complex blend of fragrances and flavors and a crsip acidity. Drink this wine slowly to savor these fragrances and flavors. Dreirebe can be enjoyed with desserts or as a sipping wine.	^$20.00

Deerfield Ranch Winery	Rate this wine
2000 gold Late Harvest Botrytis dessert wine This is one of the very few wines in the world that is made from grapes that are 100% engulfed with the "noble rot". The Sauvignon Blanc is from the Salinas valley and the Riesling is from Napa. The blend adds even more complexity than had our previous single vineyard botrytis wines.	^$50.00

Charles Creek Vineyard

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N/V Chocolate "La Bomba"
California

Our rich, port style wine is composed of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, fortified with brandy and (here's the not-so-Port-style part of the equation) infused with the flavors of dark chocolate. A classic combination, dark chocolate is often served with rich red wines; we've simply saved you all the trouble of having to consume the chocolate seperately by actually putting it in the bottle!

^$25.00

Big White House

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Liquid Amber Late Harvest Chardonnay

Our Liquid Amber Late Harvest Chardonnay was picked on December 6th. Its intense charachter deveoped during its unusually long time on the vine. With one third of the berries having significant botrytis, the noble rot, our Liquid Amber has the seductive honeysuckle characteristics of some of the prestigious, old-world botrytised dessert wines. This delectible dessert wine will pair beautifully with pear tarts, peach cobbler, or apricot crisps.

^$21.00

Whitehall Lane Winery	Rate this wine
2006 Belmuscato, Dessert Wine California This offering is sweet yet crisp with orange citrus, ripe peach, honey and spicy Muscat aromas and flavors. Enjoy this wine with fresh fruit after dinner, as a dessert by itself, or on that summer afternoon picnic.	^$36.00

Merryvale Vineyards

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Merryvale Antigua, Muscat de Frontignan Dessert Wine
Napa Valley

An extraordinary dessert wine made of Muscat de Frontignan and superior Napa Valley pot-still brandy. Golden/amber in color from its long aging in French oak, the wine is a complex combination of nuts and orange-peel aromas. Thick and rich in the mouth, the nuts and orange-peel theme continues from the entry through the long finish, highlighted by the many subtleties from the fine brandy and time in the barrel.

^$29.00

Raymond Vineyard & Cellar	Rate this wine
2005 Late Harvest Sauvignon Blanc Monterey 100% Sauvignon Blanc, this special wine opens with pleasant aromas of pears, honey and floral accents of lilacs and violets. Full-bodied with balanced flavors of apples, dried apricots, honey and hints of pineapple and vanilla in the long, smooth finish.	^$30.00

Raymond Vineyard & Cellar	1 reviews
2005 Eloquence Late Harvest Chardonnay Napa Valley/Monterey 100% Chardonnay from Napa Valley (58%) and Monterey County (42%), this unique wine opens with aromas of honeysuckle, baked apples, apricots, honey and floral notes. Full-bodied in the mouth with balanced flavors of dried apricots, pear, golden raisin and peaches with a long, smooth, lingering finish rich with honey.	^$40.00

Anglim Winery	1 reviews
2004 Nightcap Made from late-harvest syrah in the “port style,” fortified with brandy. It is beautifully rich but not cloying, full of ripe, sweet cherries and blackberries and a wash of chocolate. Delicious by itself or with all things chocolate. Drink now or cellar for an extended period.

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