Sweet wine has a strong floral and fruity aroma, sweet taste, often addictive, especially Chinese consumers who like to eat sweets. France's tortoiseshell is the most well-known dessert wine, but in addition to this, France also produces many other well-known dessert wines, such as straw wine (Vin de Paille), natural dessert wine (VDN) and champagne (Champagne). Take stock of France's 7 most famous sweet white wines today.
1, Su Tortoise Gui rot: Bordeaux's most famous sweet wine
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Located in the south of the Bordeaux Graves appellation, on the banks of the Ciron River, a tributary of the Left Bank of the Garonne, the climate here is ideal for the growth of noble rot bacteria. Humid and foggy in the morning is conducive to the breeding and spread of noble rot bacteria, and warm drying in the afternoon can inhibit the growth of noble rot bacteria, the skin of grapes is dried and shrunk, the water evaporates, and the sweetness and flavor of the fruit are accumulated. Although other Bordeaux appellations also produce noble rot wines, the quality of the Sauerikho region is the best.
Su Tortoise Gui rotten sweet white has a thick golden yellow, generally darker than the color of other sweet wines, the aroma is more intense and powerful, often with a strong honey, floral fragrance and stone fruit aroma, the taste is sweet and not greasy, the wine body is full and complex, the layers are varied, the aging potential is larger, and some can be as long as hundreds of years. Among them, Chateau d'Yquem's Su tortoisen guifu wine is the most famous, once a bottle of 1811 vintage Dicjin guifu wine was auctioned for 117,000 US dollars, is the well-deserved "king of Su tortoise".
2. Straw wine: the most well-known sweet wine in the Jura region
There are three main production areas of straw wine in France: Jura, Hermitage and Alsace, of which Jura's straw wine is the most outstanding, along with the Italian Passito and the Greek holy wine (Vinsanto) is called the world's top 3 straw wines.
Jura straw wines are mostly made of Chardonnay, Savagnin or the red grape Poulsard, the grapes are harvested and placed on the straw to dry naturally, or hang naturally dried, after layers of screening, remove the rotten rotten fruit, after 2-3 months, until the water in the grapes is lost and crumpled, the sugar is concentrated and pressed (100 kg of grapes can only squeeze out 15-18 liters of grape juice), and then fermented to alcohol 15%-17%, followed by 2-3 years of bottling in small oak barrels with sweetness ranging from 60 g/L to 130 g/L.
Jura straw wine straw wine is permeated with the precipitation of the years, the acidity of the wind and the sweetness of the wind in balance, honey, preserves and almonds and other aromas blend with each other, rich and do not collide with each other, the mouth feels smooth and full, the structure is delicate, the afterscent is long, the mouth stays in the fragrance of figs, raisins and honey for a long time, as if falling into a honey pot, sweet and greasy, but do not want to forget. The most famous straw wine is Chateau D'Arlay, which has been produced for more than 800 years, producing an average of only 1,000 bottles per year, and the factory price is as high as hundreds of dollars, making it one of the most expensive straw wines in France.
3. Sweet Champagne: the most well-known sweet wine in the Champagne region
Champagne has a history of hundreds of years and is one of the most popular wines in the world, officially inscribed on UNESCO's World Genetic Register in 2015. Champagne is usually made by Chadonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier through the "traditional method" (also known as the Methode Champenoise), the process is very complicated, requires a lot of manpower, time, a bottle of real champagne needs to be aged for at least 15 months, the quality is very good.
Champagne can be divided into 7 types according to its sugar content: Brut Nature, Extra Brut, Brut, Extra Sec, Demi-Sec and Doux, with a sugar content greater than 50 g/L. While most of the top fine champagnes are dry, such as Salon white champagne, the sweet champagne is also brewed by wineries.
4. Vuffrey: The most famous baishinan dessert wine in the Loire Valley
Vouvray AOC is the most famous of the Touraine appellations. Depending on the vintage, Vuffrey Beschen can be brewed as dry, semi-dried or sweet. In excellent dry years, Bai Shi Nan can be infected with noble rot bacteria and is brewed into a noble rotten sweet wine; in cold years, Bai Shi Nan is usually brewed into a sour and delicious dry white and sparkling wine. Overall, the quality of the Vufrey Whites is excellent, with an ageing potential of up to 50 years, making it the finest and roundest in the Loire Valley. Domaine Huet's Domaine Huet is the most famous, all biodynamic and abandoned in bad vintages, such as 1976 and 1985. The winery's finest wines are Vouvray Moelleux Cuvee Constance, which uses winemaking ingredients from 3 of the best vineyards and has a strong ripening potential of more than 50 years.
In addition to Vufrey, the Loire Valley regions of Quarts-de-Chaume, Coteaux du Layon, Bonnezeaux and Montlouis-Sur-Loire also produce excellent white wines.
5. Grain selection of expensive rotten wine: the most excellent dessert wine in Alsace
Alsace is "the most beautiful wine country in France", where the sunshine is abundant, the rainfall is low and the soil is abundant, laying a good foundation for the production of the best sweet white wines, of which the two dessert wines are the most famous, Vendage Tardive and Selection de Grains Nobles.
In addition to Su Tortoise, the quality of the granular guifu wines produced in Alsace is also very outstanding, especially the granular guifu wines made by Qiong Yao pulp, which is perhaps the most unique top sweet wine in the world. Wineries such as Domaine Weinbach, Domaine Zind-Humbrecht and Maison Trimbach have repeatedly received high ratings from Robert Parker. The 2001 Vintage of The Windbach Liechtenstein Joan Yao Pulp Selection Of Noble Rot Wine received a Rating of 100 points from Parker, calling it "silky texture, sexy wine body, absolutely exciting".
6. Bannus Natural Liqueur: The most well-known dessert wine in Languedo Crucieln
Natural liqueur (VDN) is that before the yeast is fermented, the winemaker will often add a spirit with an alcohol content of up to 95% (the strength of the spirit added by Porter is generally 77%) to kill the yeast and thus prevent the complete conversion of sugar, so that the residual sugar is more, so that the taste is sweet, and the alcohol content will be higher, more than 15%. Languedoc-Roussillon is a very important natural liqueur region in France, where 90% of natural liqueurs are produced, most notably in the Banyuls, Maury and Rasteau regions, of which Bannus natural dessert wines are of the highest quality.
Located at the southernmost tip of the Languedoc-Roussillon appellation in France, Banus consists of four villages with vineyards spread over steep terraces. Mainly made from Grenache Noir, The Banus sweet red wine is the finest sweet red wine in France and rivals the finest port wine. The Banyuls Grand Cru is only produced in good years, aged in oak barrels for 30 months and has a very long ageing capacity. Among them, the Domaine du Traginer produces a premium Bannus wine of outstanding quality. The winery has always respected the terroir, only organic cultivation, no use of pesticides, herbicides, and horses to cultivate the land, is one of the most well-known wineries for natural sweet wines in the Languedoc-Roussillon appellation.
In addition, Languedoc produces many natural muscular liquors, such as Muscat de Rivesaltes, Muscat de Frontignan, Muscat de Saine-Jean-de-Minervois, Muscat de Lunel and Muscat de Mireval.
7. Vimontino Natural Liqueur: The most well-known dessert wine in Corsica
Natural dessert wines in Languedoc are usually made with Grenache and musk, while natural dessert wines in Corsica are mostly made in Vermentino. Vimontino is the most well-known and widely grown white grape variety in Corsica, and the resulting dessert wine is structurally balanced, mellow and complex, although it is not as high as the natural dessert wine of Banus, but the overall quality is also excellent. Among them, Domaine Comte Peraldi's natural sweet wines are more outstanding and more affordable, usually only tens of dollars.