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Winos: If you're familiar with very sweet reds like...
...Pindar Sweet Scarlett,
1. could you please recommend some others like this with a high sugar content?
2. If the red is very sweet, does this mean that the grape was harvested late? i.e. Late Harvest?
Thanks much.
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Re: Winos: If you're familiar with very sweet reds like...
I am not familiar with that wine at all.
What is it like? Is it more a "with food" wine? If you are looking for a sweeter red, have you tried a Lambrusco? I also usually pick up a few Red Demi-Secs every year from a winery in MI, sweet, but not as syrupy sweet as a white Demi-Sec. Maybe you can try one of these?
If you are looking for more of a desserty one, there is a sparkly red dessert wine I love with chocolate, let me know and I will see if I can find the name.
As far as what makes them sweeter....I am trying to remember what they told me on the tours...it is all it bit hazy. I know the late harves ones are sweeter because they ripen longer, but they can also stop the fermenting process at certain points to leave some residual sugar, or they also add sugars back in at bottling?
I'm not familiar with that particular wine, and I usually go for the big, earthy, full-bodied reds with Iots of tannins, so I'm not going to be a whole lotta help here, but I do second the Lambrusco recommendation.
If you're interested in a dessert red, try a port. Thick and yummy!
Not all sweet wines are always a late harvest varital. Wine making is complete chemistry - and a sweet wine can be picked early in the season - i.e. concord grape wines.
I would suggest to you a few things... first go to your local winery or wine store and ask if they have anything is made with Concord Grapes - even just 10 percent can make a huge difference.
Second, I would suggest Rose' wine. Its often made by blending white and red grapes to create a blush wine - however in recent years, wine makers have used all red grapes, fermenting for a short period with skins on later pressing the juice and fermenting some time more. This process skips any oak aging - which will kill any sweetness, so you want steel vat fermented wine only.
The next thing I would suggest to you would be dark fruit wines. Only buy wine that is made with 100% fruit though - it makes a huge difference in the flavor. My favorites are blackberry and plum.
Try this winery, you can buy online if you live out of the state of Il... www.lynfredwinery.com. Their fruit wines are inexpensive and delicious!
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