Valentine's Day gifts usually center around chocolates or flowers. While those are great choices - you'll hear no argument about either from my valentine - dessert wines have the sweet and pretty angles covered in both aroma and taste.
If your valentine is a wine lover, a dessert wine is the perfect gift idea. Sweet, floral aromas and luscious candy-like flavors make dessert wine a natural choice for the sweetest person in your life. Anyway, they taste so much better than those awful candy hearts.
As you may expect, dessert wines are great for dessert, or as an addition to dessert. They also pair well with blue cheese and you can even liven up a lobster dinner with a sweet wine.
Here are some dessert wines you may want to look into as a gift on the sweetest day of the year:
Sauternes is a sweet Bordeaux white wine. Sauternes wines can get very expensive, but many affordable examples can be found in the $20 to $30 range for a half-bottle.
A Hungarian wine known as Tokaji (pronounced to-kay) is a sweet white wine often called "the king of wines and the wine of kings." At least that's what Louis XIV called it.
Italian Brachetto is not extremely sweet - call it off-dry - but it's a sparkling red wine and is certainly a festive choice for Valentine's Day.
An Icewine from Austria, Germany, Canada or New York State will also please sweet-craving palates.
Port is a sweet wine, although it's fortified with brandy or grape spirits and the alcohol level is a bit higher than most dessert wines. Real Port comes only from Portugal, but Port-style wines are made just about everywhere.
California's Rosenblum Cellars makes a treat called Désirée. It's a Port-style wine made from Zinfandel and two Portuguese grape varieties, infused with chololate. It can certainly set a romantic mood all by itself.
If your valentine is a wine lover, a dessert wine is the perfect gift idea. Sweet, floral aromas and luscious candy-like flavors make dessert wine a natural choice for the sweetest person in your life. Anyway, they taste so much better than those awful candy hearts.
As you may expect, dessert wines are great for dessert, or as an addition to dessert. They also pair well with blue cheese and you can even liven up a lobster dinner with a sweet wine.
Here are some dessert wines you may want to look into as a gift on the sweetest day of the year:
Sauternes is a sweet Bordeaux white wine. Sauternes wines can get very expensive, but many affordable examples can be found in the $20 to $30 range for a half-bottle.
A Hungarian wine known as Tokaji (pronounced to-kay) is a sweet white wine often called "the king of wines and the wine of kings." At least that's what Louis XIV called it.
Italian Brachetto is not extremely sweet - call it off-dry - but it's a sparkling red wine and is certainly a festive choice for Valentine's Day.
An Icewine from Austria, Germany, Canada or New York State will also please sweet-craving palates.
Port is a sweet wine, although it's fortified with brandy or grape spirits and the alcohol level is a bit higher than most dessert wines. Real Port comes only from Portugal, but Port-style wines are made just about everywhere.
California's Rosenblum Cellars makes a treat called Désirée. It's a Port-style wine made from Zinfandel and two Portuguese grape varieties, infused with chololate. It can certainly set a romantic mood all by itself.
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