Results tagged “sauternes” from Birmingham Mail - Restaurant Spy

Many people are sniffy about sweet wines, imagining they are somehow unsopisticated. Absolute tosh.

It's true that there are artificially sweetened horrors that are to fine wine what take-away pizza is to fine dining and that no-one other than drunken teenagers and demented grannies could possibly enjoy such a tipple.

But there are other sweet wines - their sugars intensified either by late harvesting or the actions of a fungus that sucks the water out of the grapes - that are divine.

King of these, in my view, is sauternes.