Dessert
Find the top rated dessert with Wine Enthusiast Magazine’s extensive dessert reviews and easy to use rating system. Our dessert ratings are full of great information and will help you make the perfect choice!
Château Coutet 2005 White (Barsac)
- $40
Surprisingly dry, this has richness rather than sweetness, and intense, powerful botrytis. The honey is intensely perfumed, along with baked apples and spice. Certainly a long-aging wine.
— R.V.
(6/1/2008)
Château Rieussec 2005 White (Sauternes)
You get both apricots and honeyed botrytis aromas that are followed through by a dry core, very full-bodied with richness, the sweetness of the yellow jam fruits, apricots and mangoes gliding over the palate. Delicious, and certainly ageworthy.
— R.V.
(6/1/2008)
Collavini 2003 Picolit (Colli Orientali del Friuli)
- $230
Here is a standout dessert wine from Italy’s Friuli region with a deep amber color and generous aromas of chestnut honey, apricot and almond paste. It’s a deeply fruity wine, layer after tasty layer, and gorgeous on all fronts. The texture is creamy but smooth and equally shaped by the wine’s natural sweetness and acidity.
— M.L.
(12/15/2008)
Bründlmayer 2005 Zöbinger Heiligenstein Beerenauslese Riesling (Kamptal)
- Cellar Selection
- $99
You can hear the richness of this wine as you pour it. Then the richness, the sweetness and the intense acidity burst out of the glass. This is a superb sweet wine, its richness tempered by the concentrated honey and lemon flavor that Riesling does so well. Age for many years.
— R.V.
(8/1/2008)
Rocca Bernarda 2004 Picolit (Colli Orientali del Friuli)
- Editors' Choice
- $50
Extraordinary notes of apricot, peach, honey-roasted almond, dried fruit and chopped herbs come together seamlessly to shape a very intense and gratifying wine. It is creamy, perfectly sweet and tangy on the taste buds and long-lasting. This is one of the best examples of Picolit you will ever taste.
— M.L.
(12/15/2008)
Feiler-Artinger 2005 Ruster Ausbruch Essenz Chardonnay Weissburgunder (Burgenland)
- Cellar Selection
- Online Exclusive
- $58
This is the pinnacle of achievement from an outstanding dessert wine producer. A blend of Chardonnay and Pinot Blanc, it is an explosion of hugely rich, hugely sweet fruit, with brown sugar, raisins and tight acidity. This is an astonishingly rich wine, likely to age for at least 10 years.
— R.V.
(10/1/2008)
Di Majo Norante 2006 Apianae Moscato (Molise)
- Online Exclusive
- $29
This is an extraordinary, golden dessert wine with intense and penetrating notes of honey, marron glacé, dried apricot, marzipan, candied lemon, dried mint and jasmine. It’s smooth, rich and long lasting in the mouth. The wine has personality and power and boasts magnetic appeal across the board.
— M.L.
(10/1/2008)
Lis Neris 2005 Tal Lùc Verduzzo (Friuli)
Made with partially dried grapes, Tal Lùc is an extraordinary dessert wine. It offers unlimited generosity and lush tones of honey, butterscotch, marzipan and dried apricot. It has thick, sweet density and ends with piquant crispness. Pair this wine with pâté or foie gras.
— M.L.
(12/15/2008)
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