Ever tried these different styles of dessert wines?

Dessert Wines! The much loved wines for making desserts!

Dessert wines are just prefect to match up to the awesome tastes of your favourite desserts, but, what when it comes to the people who would not prefer to go ahead with a heavy sweet dish, but, still want a nice treat at the end of the meal? In such cases it becomes important to know about different styles of wines you can try even when you would want to skip the dessert.

So, There are basically 4 different styles of Dessert wines, namely:

1. Late Harvest
2. Noble Rot
3. Ice Wine
4. Dried Grape

The basic concept of late harvest dessert wines lies in leaving the grapes to dry out and increase in sweetness. There are many styles of late harvest wines as well out of which there are several varieties that are often more preferred over the others. Within this category of late harvest style there are several wine making procedures and techniques that contribute in making a wide variety of late harvest wines that result in different tasting wines.

Late Harvest

In this, the basic process is done wherein the grapes are left on the vine and are picked later in the season. Thus, the name is late harvest.

Noble Rot

It is a process in which a special kind of fungus develops on grapes in foggy regions. This fungus results in increase in the sweetness of grapes with notes of saffron, honey and ginger.

Dried Grape

Dried grape wines have numerous different methods and styles and this style is particularly famous in Italy, where the grapes are harvested and dried by laying them on mats in drying rooms before they are processed into wines.

Ice Wine

Ice wines are made with the grapes that are allowed to freeze on the vine and picked and pressed to release only the sugars from the grape, leading the wine to be sweet in taste.

However, given all these styles of dessert wines, the combinations of trying a dessert wine with a dessert are not just limited to desserts, but, due to their remarkable features, the possibilities of the trying dessert wines are endless.

At Soma Vine Village, there are two awesome dessert wines you can give a try namely, Sauvignon Blanc Dessert and Chenin Blanc Dessert that complement a wide variety of desserts, a majority of which you can try with a combination of one of these wines.

 

If you are a wine lover, you must try these different styles of dessert wines for the love of wine.

How can you judge Wine by its color?

 Here is a quick guide to understanding the Wine attributes by judging the color of Wine.

RED WINES

• When the wine is light bodied or has a transparent red color, there is a wide watery rim on the top layer of wine in the glass. The light-bodied red wines tend to have low tannin and high acidity. 
• A medium bodied red wine tends to have moderate tannin and medium acidity. This can be identified when the red wine has a semi-transparent, opaque core and medium rim width.
• A full-bodied red wine tends to have high tannin and low acidity. The red wine with opaque color and thick rim width falls into this category. 

WHITE WINES

• White wines with pale yellow-green-silver glow, also called light bodied white wines, tend to have high acidity and are best enjoyed ice-cold.
• White wines with pale gold-platinum glow, also called medium bodied white wines, tend to have moderate acidity and most of the white wines fall into this category.
• Full bodied white wines tend to have low acidity and rich creamy food compliments them. These can be identified with the rich yellow-copper glow of white wine. 

So, the next time you try a white wine or a red wine, you can judge the acidity and tannin present in it by looking at the color of the wine.

You can try wines at Soma Vine Village and share your wine tasting experience with us. Also, don’t forget to let us know if you could judge the wine by its color at Soma Vine Village.