Sweet Wines
We love sweet wine, and there’s no old-fashioned snobbish disdain here for wines with engaging sweetness.
Our own taste is for sweet wines which retain enough acidity not to be simply cloying. For example we continue to champion wines from the Loire, where late harvest Chenin Blancs can be intensely sweet yet with enough balancing acidity to last for decades. Alongside these we will always offer a selection from Bordeaux and south-west France, plus examples from Italy, Austria and Hungary.
Note that there are numerous delicious medium-dry or demi-sec styles - for example Alsace Vendange Tardive, German Auslese or demi-sec Vouvray which are not rich enough to be served as sweet wines acompanying a pudding but which make fine aperitifs or accompaniments to cheese and light fruit desserts.
Please do note the bottle sizes of sweet wines which range from halves via 50cls. (2/3 of a bottle) to full bottles.
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Made from a single parcel of 70 year-old Grenache vines, aged in barrel for 18 months, it...
OriginFrance
RegionRoussillon
ColourRed
ABV17%
Bottle75cl
CodeFON621
GrapeGrenache
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The second wine of Lafaurie-Peyraguey, a Grand Cru Classe of the Sauternes with 18 hectares of...
OriginFrance
RegionBordeaux
ColourWhite
ABV13%
Bottle75cl
CodeCLP119
GrapeSemillon, Sauvignon Blanc & Muscadelle
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Chateau Barrere, Jurancon Moelleux, 2014
Medium sweet
A blend of 70% Petit Manseng and 30% Gros Manseng from Jurancon in South West France. Floral...
OriginFrance
RegionJurancon
ColourWhite
ABV13.5%
Bottle75cl
CodeBRR114
GrapePetit Manseng & Gros Manseng
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Chateau de Toulet, Loupiac, 2022
Medium Sweet
Toulet has been producing sweet wines since the 13th century and for the last five generations...
OriginFrance
RegionBordeaux
ColourWhite
ABV12%
Bottle75cl
CodeTOU122
GrapeSemillon & Sauvignon Blanc
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Tasting note to follow Stéphane and Séverine Branchereau are another couple who have...
OriginFrance
RegionLoire
ColourWhite
ABV11.50%
Bottle75cl
CodeFOR321
GrapeChenin Blanc
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Organically farmed and certified; from grapes picked in several passages through the Griaud...
OriginFrance
RegionSouth-West
ColourWhite
ABV13%
Bottle75cl
CodeKAL1217
GrapeSemillon & Muscadelle
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Organically farmed and certified; from grapes picked in several passages through the Griaud...
OriginFrance
RegionSouth-West
ColourWhite
ABV13%
Half Bottle37.5cl
CodeKAL122
GrapeSemillon & Muscadelle
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A stunning, rare-as-hens'-teeth, deliberately oxidised fortified, dry wine. Soft, golden...
OriginFrance
RegionRoussillon
ColourWhite
ABV18%
Bottle75cl
CodeFON818
GrapeGrenache Blanc, Grenache Gris & Macabeu
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This Vin Doux Naturel (literally naturally sweet wine - see below) is one of the most...
OriginFrance
RegionRoussillon
ColourWhite
ABV16%
Bottle75cl
CodeFON917
GrapeGrenache Blanc
