Dessert Wines

BiG MiKE · Post by **BiG MiKE** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:51 pm

Am interested in recommendations for dessert wines, I enjoy the sweetness of the Brown Brothers Floral Muscat, but I'm looking to try others. Unfortunately the local only stocks the BB.

Oh and is Floral muscat anything like plain muscat?

Scanlon · Post by **Scanlon** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:55 pm

The Liebich Fortified Semillion 10yo is my favourite

Daniel Jess · Post by **Daniel Jess** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:59 pm

2006 La Spinnetta Moscato (not sure on spelling!)

Davo · Post by **Davo** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:54 pm

I assume you mean BB Orange Muscat and Flora. Made from 2 different grape varieties, "orange muscat" and "flora" and is not fortified. Muscat is made from a single variety of muscat, usually muscat of alexandria, and fortified with spirit.

As an aside, and as pointed out by Daniel above, muscat also finds its way into moscato, low alcohol, sweet and slight spritz.

Daniel Jess · Post by **Daniel Jess** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:53 pm

Davo wrote:As an aside, and as pointed out by Daniel above, muscat also finds its way into moscato, low alcohol, sweet and slight spritz.

Keeping in mind that there are many types of muscat grape, especially blanco.

Mike Hawkins · Post by **Mike Hawkins** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:21 am

Sauterne from the 2001 and 2007 vintages. Also de Bortoli Noble One.

Mike

ChrisV · Post by **ChrisV** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:47 am

De Bortoli Noble One has been viciously underpriced for about the last hundred years.

Daryl Douglas · Post by **Daryl Douglas** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:27 am

ChrisV wrote:De Bortoli Noble One has been viciously underpriced for about the last hundred years.

Dunno about "viciously underpriced". For a 375ml bottle I think it's reasonably priced at $20-$25 retail. I've only tried it a couple of times but it is a very good sticky, not a style I'm much into, botryised white wine, don't have a sweet tooth. There's a 2nd bottle though, of the 04 Noble stashed for an appropriate occasion - the other was a Christmas gift to a sister-in-law. The remaining bottle has a developed tan-gold colour.

The only other botrytised wine I have is a Mitchelton Blackwood Park Riesling 04, another half-bottle; I grabbed it at the barn at what I thought was a good price at the time. The cork's below the bottle rim but can't see the colour of the wine through the brown bottle.

Cheers

daz

BiG MiKE · Post by **BiG MiKE** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:18 am

Davo wrote:I assume you mean BB Orange Muscat and Flora.

Thats the one.

Cheers guys, got a lot to try now!

Waiters Friend · Post by **Waiters Friend** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:14 pm

Bellarmine in Pemberton make three different rieslings, one of which is labeled Auslese. It's not a botrytis sticky, but a well made sweet riesling. It comes in 750ml bottles, and is around $17.

Christo · Post by **Christo** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:18 pm

get some climens 07'.. wine of the (otherwise dismal) vintage.

c

DJ · Post by DJ » Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:41 pm

ChrisV wrote:De Bortoli Noble One has been viciously underpriced for about the last hundred years.

Don't know about a hundred years - first vintage 1982 :wink:

Sharkey · Post by **Sharkey** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:58 am

DJ wrote:
ChrisV wrote:De Bortoli Noble One has been viciously underpriced for about the last hundred years.

Don't know about a hundred years - first vintage 1982

I can remember paying around $30 for 1982 Noble One when it was first released. It was probably more expensive than Grange at the time.

The price today is cheap by comparison.