Australian Desert Wine

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Australian desert wine. Australian dessert wine regions. Near the town of griffith in southern new south wales is the riverina wine region. Dessert wines sometimes called pudding wines in the united kingdom are sweet wines typically served with dessert.

There is no simple definition of a dessert wine. Dessert and fortified wines aka stickies have long played an integral role in the rich history of the australian wine industry until the 1960s port style and sherry style fortified wines made up more than three quarters of the wines made in australia. Dessert wine 6 gin genever 5 liqueur 3 other whisky 1 red wine 198 rose wine 4 sparkling wine 3 vermouth 1 white wine 103 dessert wine by country australia 6 canada 2 chile 3 cyprus 1 france 10 germany 3 greece 1 hungary 5 italy 11 new zealand 1 south africa 3 spain 1.

When you stop to think about dessert wines it shouldn t be surprising that australia settled by people from a country where portuguese and spanish fortified wines were popular would also produce similarly styled wines to those produced in europe. As well as australia wide interpretations of port and sweet sherry remain well suited to our. Price per unit 39 98 75cl rustenberg straw wine 37 5cl.

Here the botrytis influenced semillon grapes are picked in late autumn to produce dessert wines with complex. 5 out of 5 stars 3. In the uk a dessert wine is considered to be any sweet wine drunk with a meal as opposed to the white fortified wines fino and amontillado sherry drunk before the meal and the red fortified wines port and madeira drunk after it.

Stone s original green ginger wine 70cl. 5 out of 5 stars 1 0 in trolley. Australian new zealand dessert wines.

Dessert wines are meant to be enjoyed in small glasses and treasured like a glass of scotch. Some of australia s most impressive fortified wines are aged in barrels for up to 100 years or more. 5 out of 5 stars 1 item price.