Dessert Wines

We took our honeymoon (bike trip) through the Finger Lakes, and have had a number of trips to the wineries in the past. The best wines made in the Finger Lakes are Riesling and Gewurzrtraminer. The latter are generally...

Coolies. One of the "smart" things about this new portion of the Veritas "web presentation" is that it allows those of us who have never been there to see exactly how nice their tasting room and location are. It's very...

Thanks to every one who's welcomed me, lil' drinker, to this group. Dmcker, thanks for the laughs. I can't wait to tell my friend she has a new career option. Konzelmann's 2007 Sparkling Riesling was a standout, along with...

Welcome Newton. Looks like you might need three different wines. The Squash ... though I can see many dessert wines working well with the pears as well. Sauternes, or more likely in my case it's close neighbor, Barsac...

Sounds good, Eric, but I suggest you also keep looking around for other soleras/houses and vintages in your price range, if nothing else than for your own enjoyment and education.... You can also try to throw a couple of...

Am in Tokyo for several years now, so tend to view this holiday with particular sentimentality. 10 people for dinner, with staggered arrivals. Tuna and avocado tartare, raw ama-ebi sashimi and a couple of other snacky bits...

Sunnybrook Farm Estate Winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake makes some good fruit wines. At Saturday's Taste of the Season event, they served a iced cherry. It tasted like a prize-winning pie. The mix of cherries made it...

Beat me to it. Exactly - just buy a good Marsala, not the "cooking" verrsion in the store, same as any other wine. It's a fortified wine that's actually made in a manner similar to sherry, so if you want, you can use...

Just buy a regular Marsala, and cook with what you don't drink! Nice, often interesting, sweeter wines for dessert or on their own, and also in sauces for chicken, veal, desserts, etc. The fortified version is what we...

I thought he meant another dog... Anyway, best I can come up with is the Salty Dog: Ingredients: - 2 oz vodka - 5 oz grapefruit juice - salt rimming Garnish: lime wedge Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with...