wine as a gift

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These wines are for sipping before or after dinner (quaffing) or drinking with the main courses of the dinner. Since desserts are usually sweet, you need a sweet wine to go with them. Port, either red or white, is an excellent general purpose dessert wine. For chocolate desserts you can also use the so-called late harvest red wines. The best of these is the French Banyuls. For other desserts there are muscat based dessert wines as well as the very expensive Sauternes and the super sweet rieslings of Germany such as Beerenauslese.