Dessertweine

Sweet, concentrated and seductively deep: dessert wines crown any menu – a liquid dessert for special moments.

The art of sweetness

Dessert wines arise when plenty of sugar remains in the grape. Several routes lead there: drying the grapes (passito), noble rot or stopping fermentation. The result is concentrated, often long-lived sweet wines.

Passito and Recioto

In the passito method, the grapes are dried on mats after harvest, concentrating sugar and aromas. In the Veneto this yields Recioto della Valpolicella, a sweet red. Muscat grapes also make fragrant sweet specialities.

Our dessert wine recommendations

• Sissi Goldmuskateller Passito – fragrant and sweet – muscat at its most beautiful.
• Rigoletto Passito Veneto – a golden passito with honey and dried fruit.
• Recioto della Valpolicella – the sweet red – concentrated and velvety.

Dessert wines at the table

Sweet wines pair with desserts, aged blue cheeses and pastries. The classic contrast of sweet and salty makes gorgonzola with a passito an experience. Recioto suits chocolate desserts and dried fruit.

Serving it right

Serve dessert wines well chilled, at 8 to 12 °C, in small glasses. Being concentrated, small amounts suffice – once opened they often keep for several weeks thanks to their sugar.

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