The most common dessert wines are ice wines and fortified wines. As the name suggests, these specialty wines are sweeter than regular wines, and their flavours tend to be richer. They are lovely paired with sweet foods, such as chocolate, as well as with fruit and cheese.
There are two ways to create dessert wines with us—small batch vintnering with our experts’ guidance and recipes, or with premium craft wine kits.
One of our dessert wine recipes starts with twice as much fruit (fresh or frozen) as regular wine. We pre-ferment it and then press the juice from the fruit. We use special yeast, and add the sugar in a staged fashion. The result is a very full-bodied wine. We finish these wines with raisins, and often the customer will fortify the wine by adding brandy to the batch! Delicious! Imagine a fortified blackberry wine, paired with dark chocolate, on a cold winter’s night by the fireplace!
