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.

Forges, Tendresse, Chenin Blanc, Demi-Sec, Val de Loire, 2024

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Forges, Tendresse, Chenin Blanc, Demi-Sec, Val de Loire, 2024
Forges, Tendresse, Chenin Blanc, Demi-Sec, Val de Loire, 2024

New for the summer of 2025, a delightful, lowish-alcohol medium Chenin. Very pale colour,...

Style

Dry > Sweet

OriginFrance

RegionLoire

ColourWhite

ABV10%

Bottle75cl

CodeFOR024

GrapeChenin Blanc

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Domaine des Forges, Coteaux du Layon St Aubin, 2022

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Domaine des Forges, Coteaux du Layon St Aubin, 2022

Saint-Aubin-de-Luigné lies between the Loire and Layon rivers. This late picked Chenin Blanc...

Style

Dry > Sweet

OriginFrance

RegionLoire

ColourWhite

ABV12%

Bottle75cl

CodeFOR622

GrapeChenin Blanc

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Domaine des Forges, Coteaux du Layon, Quarts du Chaume, Grand Cru, 2021

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Domaine des Forges, Coteaux du Layon, Quarts du Chaume, Grand Cru, 2021

Tasting note to follow Stéphane and Séverine Branchereau are another couple who have...

Style

Dry > Sweet

OriginFrance

RegionLoire

ColourWhite

ABV11.50%

Bottle75cl

CodeFOR321

GrapeChenin Blanc

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Domaine des Forges, Coteaux du Layon, 1er Cru Chaume, Les Onnis, 2022

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Domaine des Forges, Coteaux du Layon, 1er Cru Chaume, Les Onnis, 2022

From a steep, grassed vineyard on similar soils to Quarts de Chaume; and near the river, so...

Style

Dry > Sweet

OriginFrance

RegionLoire

ColourWhite

ABV11.5%

Bottle75cl

CodeFOR222

GrapeChenin Blanc

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