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.