How To Choose Dessert Wines

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A dessert wine makes a great meal even better. Follow these tips to top off your menu with flair.

To complete this How-To you will need:

A variety of desserts
A supply of dessert wines

Step 1: Know your dessert wines

Learn the different types of dessert wines, including fortified wines, such as port and sherry, and late harvest wines, made from mature, sweet grapes.

Step 2: Choose a dessert

Decide what to serve for dessert and choose a wine to complement it. Cake or cookies, fruit and cheese, and chocolate are good choices.

Tip: Complement the meal. Follow a heavy meal with a lighter dessert. Save rich desserts to follow lighter meals.

Step 3: Drink port with hearty desserts

Serve port, a red wine fortified with brandy, with rich desserts. Pair lighter ruby ports with fruit pies, tawny ports with milk chocolate, and vintage ports with dark chocolate.

Step 4: Muscat wine

Drink Muscat wine with fruit. Muscat grapes produce a sweet, light, fruity wine.

Tip: Dessert wine should be sweeter than whatever you serve with it.

Step 5: Noble rot

Indulge in a bottle of Sauternes, a wine made from grapes infected by "noble rot," a fungus that concentrates their sugars. Serve with fruit and Roquefort cheese.

Step 6: Serve wine

Serve very sweet dessert wines, such as ice wine or German Ausele, on their own. These are a dessert in themselves!

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[santu300]

what they r trying  to show man. they really dont know about holding wine glass.

[selbstinszenierung]

Gosh, those philistines should first of all learn how to HOLD a wine glass correctly!

They don't even get the easiest things... No wonder the majority of the world got an unfavourable picture of Americans.

[omeuusername]

yayyy classy

[gaveintothedarkness]

ahh yes i see, back in the glory days of howcast. thanks

[graffnameseed]

i like this one , now i drink dessert wine with everything, no one can tell me no hahhaha !!!!!!!!

[ObsTheGreat]

You mean DYKES? If you're going to insult someone at least know how to spell it.

[juicypop]

They already have these videos that you speak of... look back in their old ones...

[Key365]

ummm... they already did a 'how to choose a general wine' one...

If you have ideas, stop complaining and send them in?

[WootWoW6]

@IntellectualConcepts You would think they'd get the point by now. But I guess they dont.