After Dinner Wines

[Sergio]

What'sa good after dinner wine or sherry, but not too sweet?

sl

[Innkeeper]

Hi Sergio. Dessert consists of different kinds of food. Like dinner, different foods match with different foods. The main difference is that dinner wine is dry and dessert wine is sweet.

Chocolate likes red wine. Port, Late Harvest Zin, and various sweet reds from wineries east of the Rocky Mts all work, and have varying degrees of sweetness.

Many fruits and white or yellow cakes, tarts, light puddings, and combinations thereof call for a white wine. Sweet Sherrys, or Marsala (with Italian dishes) work. My favorite is Bonny Doon, Muscat, Vin de Glaciere.

I have found that the easiest place to find dessert wine is at wineries. Everyone seems to make one, even if it never gets to market. Be sure you have a sufficient supply of those teeny tiny dessert wine glasses.

[Kazak]

Innkeeper,
I have been looking for those desert glasses, but IWA and the stores around me do not sell them. I am a big fan of almost all things Bonny Doon, and the Muscat is very good. Do you know where I can purchase these glasses on line?

[Innkeeper]

I think you either need something old or utilitarian. Most of those I seached for are both 6+ oz and expensive (over $50 per stem). Want you want is 3 oz or less, either flared or upright. They exist, as I get them in restaurants regularly. Check out antique glass and restaurant supply shops in your area.

[Drew]

Look for a Tuesday Morning store near you. Muchos glassware for pesos.

http://tm.knowwhere.com/TuesdayMorning/cgi/selection?state-map=NC&place=&state=&map.x=158&map.y=130

Drew

[wondersofwine]

In Germany you can buy tiny tasting glasses with stem and all that hold maybe 1.5 to 2 ounces of wine. A friend got a dozen for me and I use them when I auction off a wine tasting for the annual church auction. Then I bring out other German wine glasses for a final dessert wine with fruit torte or cake.
(These glasses are the somewhat kitschy kind with green spiral stems, gold rim and gold vines on the bowl. Not the best for seeing the color of the wine but traditional for German wines).

[Kazak]

Gracias!