Dessert wine

[michellea]

I am looking for White Dessert Wine to be paired with Fancy Cookies and Bars, Tropical Fruit Display, etc. Any suggestions???

[Innkeeper]

Hi Michellea, and welcome to the Wine Board. My favorite is Bonny Doon's, Muscat Vin de Glaciere. It runs around $17.00 for a 375 ml bottle. Some have accused me of owning stock in the company, but it is a wonderful, hauntingly seductive wine. B.D. and others put out less expensive muscat based dessert wines that you can check out at any reputable wine dealer. Any good one would fill your bill. Be sure to serve your dessert wine in those tiny tiny dessert wine glasses. They make that 375 ml go much further.

[This message has been edited by Innkeeper (edited 05-31-2001).]

[wondersofwine]

I ate in a Raleigh restaurant last night after flying back from Palm Springs. Saw the Bonny Doone Muscat Vin de Glacier on the menu as a dessert wine and had been wanting to try it. Very nice indeed! Seemed to have ripe nectarines and mangos on the palate. I was pretty full by dessert time so paired it with the pear sorbet. It might have been a better complement to the creme brulee or upside down caramelized banana cake.
With dinner I had Bearboat Russian River Pinot Noir at the recommendation of the chef.
Very pleasant but I didn't make any notes.

[This message has been edited by wondersofwine (edited 12-27-2001).]