If you won't drink these often-underpriced treasures now, when will you? Most of these will last well over the festive season in an opened bottle. Roussillon joins the classic fortified wine...

One important feature of tomorrow’s annual generic tasting of New Zealand wines in its major export market the UK will be the presentation of sweet wines (‘wines over 15% potential alcohol’...

Until recently the range of sweet wines on offer, in the UK at least, was seriously limited. Other than fortified wines such as various ports, sherries and madeiras, we could choose from...

‘Tis the season to be merry and forget that forthcoming visit to the dentist. This is the time of year in the northern hemisphere when temperatures plummet and a glass of something sweet...

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When did you last drink wine? Almost certainly within the last few days if you are reading this.   When did you last drink sweet wine though? Chances are that even the most...

The Wine Society (see some background in a recent your turn ) recently held a fascinating comparative tasting of wines from three of the top performers in Sauternes/Barsac nowadays where I was...

Well I did have my lunch with Paul Symington, as trailed at the end of my piece on Port v. its Australian counterpart . Together with other judges of the annual Symington Award for writing on...

Our digestive systems must get the most terrible shock at this time of year. Bodies which for the last 11 months at least have been virtuously kept free of puddings, pies, tarts, cakes and...

Go on - treat yourself! Wines are listed upwards in price per cl within the following three styles. Bottles are 75 cl unless otherwise stated. SWEET Val...

What makes Charles Chevallier, winemaker at Château Lafite since 1983, smile? It is not the extraordinary elevation of his first growth Pauillac to most highly valued bordeaux of all, fuelled...

This tasting of sweet Rieslings, mainly but by no means exclusively German with Alsace* and Canadian wines too, was part of the first International Riesling Symposium held in the Rheingau last...

My tastings in Burgundy at the end of October were punctuated by the most delicious and unBurgundian tasting, a very substantial 37-wine vertical tasting of the great sweet white bordeaux Ch...

Earlier this year I had the most wonderful treat: a tasting of dozens of some of the most fascinating sweet wines in the world, Tuscan Vin Santo. These wonderfully complex wines are...

See our guide to Bordeaux 2009 coverage. Last year seems to have been yet another great vintage for serious sweet white bordeaux, even if it tends to be ignored by far too high a...