http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/wine/7407159/Sauce-sweet-wines.html
This article is typical of what supermarkets/ newspaper promote these days.
With Eisewine, try also the Austrian and Canndian wines.
My top vote goes to Sauterns – you still can’t beat a top Sauterne from a good year. If you have a cellar, leave it for 10 plus years so that it browns out.
E
April 2010
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April 5th, 2010 at 11:43
Many people tend to have a somewhat jaundiced view when it comes to sweet wines, yet the reality is that many of the worlds finest (and most expensive) wines fall into this category. The best examples have incredible aging potential which in turn makes them highly collectible and sought after.
Sauternes is indeed probably the most famous example of sweet wine, with the very best wines commanding legendary status. I remember once that Marco Pierre White’s Mirabelle restaurant in Mayfair had a Chateau d’Yquem 1829 on its wine list, at a price of £30,000 per bottle!
As Eddie rightly comments, some of the sweet wines from Austria and Canada are highly desirable. From Austria, seek out the wines of Kracher, acknowledged by many as a worthy rival to the great Sauternes chateaux of Bordeaux. This reputation has been enhanced since the relatively recent death of Alois Kracher, with both connoisseurs and investors clamouring to buy the wines on their release.
Of course many would argue that the greatest sweet wine of them all is Vintage Port, an opinion that I tend to endorse, yet probably worth a separate article in its own right.
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