Sweet Wine
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€11.10Add To CartPacherenc is the famous sweet wine of Gascony, made from late harvested Petit Manseng, Gros Manseng and Petit Courbu...
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€11.50Add To Cart
Made from late harvested individually picked Petit Manseng grapes, this sweet grapey wine has a delicate flavour. ...
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€15.30Add To Cart
Lyre’s Muscat grapes are harvested in mid-October by which time they have shrivelled slightly, expelling water from...
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€15.00Add To Cart
Carmes is the “second” wine of Château Rieussec, which is part of the Lafite-Rothschild group. Made from 80%...
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€8.00Add To Cart
Loupiac is right next door to Sauternes and produces very similar sweet wines, often at much better value.Made...
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€9.80Add To CartSauternes is still known as the producer of some of the greatest sweet wines in the world. This wine has a light,...
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€14.60Add To Cart
A top quality sweet wine made from individually picked botrytised Sémillon grapes that are then vinified in oak...
Sweet or Dessert Wines
There is nothing quite like enjoying a glass of sweet wine at the end of a meal: perhaps with cheese, perhaps with dessert or perhaps simply to enjoy by itself . Some even like it as an apéritif or to start a meal, so there is no shortage of reasons to enjoy a glass.
France is the biggest producer of a wide variety of sweet wine styles from the late harvested Gewürztraminer or Riesling from Alsace to the Muscats from the south of France, the great Sauternes wines from Bordeaux or to the sweet reds made from Grenache Noir in the far south.
A 75cl bottle will provide 12 small glasses and the good news is that in general if you open a bottle and cannot finish it, just put it back stoppered in the fridge and thanks to its sugar content, it will keep in good condition for weeks, months even…
