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Ports are full-bodied, rich and delicious. Port wines are named after their country of origin - Portugal. The most popular sweet red wine consumed in New Zealand is Port. So, now you’ve got a basic idea of how it all works, let’s get a taste of the most popular sweet wines. Be warned - fortified wines have a much higher alcohol content. Fortified wines are made by adding grape brandy to the wine to stop fermentation before all the sugar gets gobbled up. The final way of making sweet wine is to fortify it. If you’re thinking that all this carry-on must make ice wines crazy expensive, then you’d be right. What’s left behind is a very concentrated and delicious juice. The whole point of this madness is to scoop out the frozen ice - which is just water. The grapes must be pressed straight away, while still frozen. Then they handpick them, usually in the middle of the night. Winemakers in colder regions wait until ripe grapes are frozen on the vines - at around -10☌. This spore changes the flavour of the wine, making it taste of honey, ginger and saffron.Īnother way of making sweet wine is to use frozen grapes. There is also a special spore that loves hanging out on grapes, with the weirdly disgusting name of Noble Rot. This really concentrates the sugars in the wine. Late harvest wines are made from grapes that have been left on the vine so long they almost look like raisins.

Winemakers grab the sweetest grapes they can get their hands on to make sweet wine.

But there are a number of tricks that winemakers use to make wine even sweeter. The sugar in sweet wine hasn’t been added - it just comes from super sweet grapes. You can find out more about wine structure in our handy wine tasting guide. These semi-sweet wines are called aromatics. Some grape varieties, like Riesling, Gewürztraminer, and Moscato smell sweeter and more flowery. Wines with more than 30 grams of residual sugar per litre are said to be ‘sweet.’īut sometimes your senses will actually trick you into thinking a wine is sweeter than it is. Sweetness is really important for a wine’s structure.Ī wine’s sweetness is measured by its residual sugar - that’s just a fancy way of saying the sugar that’s leftover at the end of the fermentation process. In this article, we’ll be talking about Port, Riesling, Gewürztraminer, Moscato, White Port and Sherry.īut first, here’s a quick explanation of what makes sweet wine so sweet. We reckon when you get to know these little beauties you’re bound to agree - these wines are ‘sweet as!’ And, we’ll suggest some foods that match perfectly with each wine. We’re going to give you a quick rundown of the most popular sweet wines. In reality, sweet wines are really delicious - they’re fantastic before dinner, to drink with dinner or to even have as a dessert. Sweet wines deserve a lot more love than they get. People often make the mistake of thinking sweet wine is too sweet, or even that they contain added sugar.