Pudding Wines - Manual

A very attractive honeyed nose, with lifted yellow fruits and more golden tropical elements such as mango, guava and pineapple. It has a particularly tropical character and a very fresh feel on the palate, with steely minerality and a zippy background acidity giving invigorating tartness to keep the wine luscious and buoyant. The rounded, approachable finish has good length.

Country: France

Region: Loire Valley

Grapes: Chenin Blanc

ABV: 12%

VEGAN

Food Match: Rich starters like foie gras or sweetbreads and will see you through to dessert or cheese.

The sweet wine of Valpolicella - red nectar in a bottle.

Deliciously decadent dessert wine with rich winter red berry flavours, notes of chocolate, spiced prunes and Christmas cake. Delicious.

Country: Italy

Region: Valpolicella

ABV:12.5%

Grapes: Corvina 60%, Corvinone 15%, Rondinella 15%, others 10%.

Food Match: Chocolate based desserts or cakes or just simply with a good chunk of good quality dark chocolate.

This rare, complex and multi-layered dessert wine exudes aromas of honey, orange blossom and fruitcake. The palate has intense flavours of sultanas, ripe candied citrus peel and sweet mandarins.

Country: South Africa

Region: Breedekloof

Grapes: Hanepoort (Muscat d'Alexandrie)

ABV: 16.5%

Daschbosh Wine

The Hanepoot grapes for this wine are from timeworn, gnarly vines which bear a meagre yield, the vines are over 120 years old (South Africa only started recording vine age from 1900). Small bunches of concentrated and perfumed Muscat d'Alexandrie fruit are hand harvested, the juice fortified with a pure spirit.

Gorgeous, sweet wine with loads of citrus aromas like tangerine, hints of tropical fruit and notes of honeysuckle. On the palate an explosion of kumquat citrus, great concentration and balance. This wine does not leave a cloying sweetness but finishes off with a fresh citrus zest. Enjoy now or age with much complexity for the next 8 to 10 years. 

Country: South Africa

Region: Western Cape

Grapes: 50% Weisser Riesling 50% Viognier

ABV: 13%

Vegan Friendly

A great way to discover Sauternes-like sweet wines. Wonderful aromas of melon, peach and honey. The palate is well balanced, very generous with a lot of exotic fruits and apricot. The finish is as long as with a good Sauternes. Awesome value sweet white!

Country: France

Region: Cadillac, Bordeaux

Grapes: 95% Semillon, 5% Muscadelle

ABV: 13%

A delicious sweet wine from Bordeaux. Try with blue-cheeses, foie gras and of course desserts.

This wine has a beautifully expressive nose with a bouquet where candied fruit are enhanced by spices and vanilla. Concentrated apricot and peach fruit with notes of candied lemon. Long finish.

Country: France

Region: Sauternes

ABV: 13%

Grapes: 85% Semillon, 10% Sauvignon, 5% Muscadelle

This wine is luxuriously sweet and divinely tempting. Layers of coffee, After-Eight chocolates, black berries and prunes dominate but they are beautifully balanced with a firm structure of acid and fine grained tannins.

Country: USA

Region: Lodi

ABV: 15%

Grapes:  Mourvèdre

Food Match: It is a wonderful accompaniment to rich chocolatey desserts like chocolate mousse, brie with mango chutney, or salted caramel chocolate squares.

Devine treat of a wine! Astonishingly complex and layered - a must for pudding wine fans.

Country: France

Region: Monbazillac

Grapes: Sémillon, Sauvignon blanc and Muscadelle

ABV: 13%

Organic

In 1994, Sylvie and Yann Jestin acquired the vineyards of Château Vari, a property in the Monbazillac appellation noted for producing fantastic sweet wines. They converted their 24 hectares of vineyard to organic viticulture, gaining certification in 2009, from which they produce both still and sweet wines by minimal intervention practices and with low sulphite additions.