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Chateau Climens 1983 – a Classic Dessert Wine

12 October 2011
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One of the best ways to end a meal, in my opinion, is with a glass of dessert wine. One of the most famous dessert wine-producing regions in the world is in Bordeaux. The wines of Sauternes and Barsac-Sauternes come from the southern part of the region and are usually made with either Sauvignon Blanc [...]

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Essensia Orange Muscat 2007 – Vitamin C Tablets in Liquid Form

25 May 2011
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I haven’t bought a lot of dessert wines lately but – like an overweight monk might possibly have said once on a cold January morning –  I’m trying to get back into the habit. I’m familliar with Muscat, but not in this form – usually I find it’s paler: a kind of straw-yellow, maybe with [...]

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WSET Diaries – Part 6: A Sound Like A Contented Lady

8 April 2011
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Read Part 5 on our sister site RedWine.co.uk. Sparkling wine, sweet wine, Sherry and Port; also known as ‘other’, if not ‘misc’. I was surprised, but not especially bothered, that rosé wines don’t seem to have featured at all in our tastings yet, but that’s fine – I know what they taste like, and about once a [...]

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Chateau Haute-Fonrousse Monbazillac 2003

6 January 2011
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Sweet/dessert wine is something I’ve only relatively recently got into. I was lucky enough to be “broken in” several years ago with a (small) glass of 1980-odd vintage Chateau d’Yquem – recognised by some as the finest wine (red, white or sparkling) in the world and with a price to match. In 2006 a 135-year [...]

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