All about sweet wines

Cannellino di Frascati – sweet wine of Lazio

2. June 202520. July 2022 by Karl-Heinz Datum

Villa Aldobrandini Frascati © Narcisse Navarre Pixabay

Who has never heard of Frascati or maybe even drunk it. I knew Frascati from a long time ago, when it was offered almost exclusively in 1 1/2 or 2 liter bottles alongside the red, sweet Lambrusco.When I was looking for sweet wines that I had never tasted before, I came across the Cannellino di Frascati DOCG on the website of a well-known German mail-order wine company. I ordered it, without a moment’s hesitation, because of my acquaintance with the often slightly residual sweet Frascati wines in my late youth.

Kabir – Donnafugata’s Moscato di Pantelleria

2. June 20255. July 2022 by Karl-Heinz Datum

Pantelleria is best known for its capers, which are said to be the best in the world. Belonging geologically to the African continent, the Italian island, also known as the Island of the Winds, is only around 50 km east of Tunisia, but around 100 km south of Sicily.

Vinsanto from Argyros – pure aroma

2. June 202525. June 2022 by Karl-Heinz Datum

Hans served his seven-course menu, which he called a small meal, among other things with Spanish wines, – white, rosé and red – from Envinata, Vina Tondonia and Telmo Rodriguez, to “get to know them better”. Wines from renowned producers

Marsala – a cooking wine?

2. June 20256. June 2022 by Karl-Heinz Datum

Viticulture near Marsala © Luigi Crosti Pixabay

“Of course” will say whoever searches the Internet for Marsala recipes from Italian websites. Carote al marsala, Risotto agli scampi, marsala e zafferano, Arrosto di maiale al marsala, Tiramisu al marsala – entire Marsala menus can be put together.

El Sequé Dulce – Artadis sweet wine from Alicante

2. June 20254. May 2022 by Karl-Heinz Datum

The vineyards of the Artadi winery, planted with Monastrell, lie 600 meters high on sandy soil with a loamy subsoil, near Alicante. The grapes for the tasted El Sequé dulce 2015 come from there. The Artadi winery, founded in Rioja in 1985, owns vineyards in the Alavesa in Rioja, as well as those in Navarra and those near Alicante. The farming method of the winery is organic,

Vouvray Chenin Blanc – complex and juicy

2. June 202524. April 2022 by Karl-Heinz Datum

Clay and gravel soils and lots of porous tuffeau, a type of sandstone enriched with sea deposits and with good drainage, dominate the vineyards in Vouvray. In the appellation not far from Tours on the Loire, there is a climate that might be described as cool and

Iberia Cream – balanced long finish

5. April 20221. April 2022 by Karl-Heinz Datum

Sánchez Romate is best known for its Brandy Cardenal Mendoza Solera Gran Reserva, one of the world’s best-selling brandies. Bodegas Sánchez Romate Hermanos, based in Jerez de la Frontera, was founded in 1781 and has been owned by five families since 1954. The main sales are made with brandy, the bodegas

Racy late harvest from the Saar

15. April 202210. March 2022 by Karl-Heinz Datum

The Hofgut Falkenstein, or a Riesling Spätlese from the winery, has already been the subject of this blog, nevertheless here are the most important points about the winery: Erich Weber and his son Johannes are responsible for the winery. Both studied viticulture in Geisenheim and it seems that they have a very similar view of Riesling vines and whose wines. Their philosophy seems to be characterized on the one hand by renunciation: no fertilisers, fungicides, herbicides and pesticides in the vineyard, no pure culture yeasts,

PX-Sherry Bertola – herbal sweetness

9. March 202212. February 2022 by Karl-Heinz Datum

Pedro Ximénez Sherry is one of the sweetest wines in the world. Only the Pedro Ximénez grape variety is used for its production. For this purpose, the overripe grapes are dried in the sun after the harvest, which not only increases the sugar content, but also the aromas and at the same time the acidity. Moscatel sherry is made the same way. These two wines are so-called

Floral Riesling Kabinett from Wolfer Sonnenlay

10. February 202228. January 2022 by Karl-Heinz Datum

Konstantin Weiser and Alexandra Künstler started with leased 1.8 hectares in the Enkircher Ellergrub. Today they cultivate 4.6 hectares, exclusively Riesling, in Enkirch these are Ellergrub, Zeppwingert and Steffensberg sites, and besides the Trabener Gaispfad, Wolfer Sonnenlay and some smaller steep plots

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