Thread: Looking for some Good (cheap) desert wines...

My little brother raided my wine collection and KILLED a couple bottles...


Now he is saying he loves desert wines. Does anyone know of some good and cheap desert wines? I need him to STFU and leave me alone... so it should also have a decent kick to it.


Thanks.

A nice Riesling is sweet. Cheap, ten bucks at Albertsons.

my favorite dessert wine is from Santa Cruz, CA
Bonny Doon Muscat Vin de Glaciere (half-bottle) 2004
Says its no longer available, but I bought a bottle not too long ago from Safeway...

hogue cellar's late harvest white Riesling - 10 bucks.

jack daniels works too..

I freaking love late harvests. Trader Joe's has a nice late harvest riesling for $4bux. and It's quite good.

Giacomo Vico i only found this thing in Cambria and if you like it i suggest ordering it by the case...me and my fam love this so we always stock it up
its great!

If he wants dessert wines with a kick, steer him over to port. Plenty of decent tawny and late bottle vintage ports will go for less than $20, and a bottle will last way longer than other dessert wines.

Is Rosa Regale a dessert wine?

and if it isn't I've been drinking the wrong wine with my dessert! haha

Does anyone want to start a thread with some basic wine knowledge..?

I drink it on occasion but do not have any idea about what to drink with what/when etc.

Originally Posted by Mark C

Does anyone want to start a thread with some basic wine knowledge..?

I drink it on occasion but do not have any idea about what to drink with what/when etc.

The topic of what to drink when is huge, you might have better luck just asking specific questions. I could spend a couple pages on desert wines alone... Which brings me to the WebDaemons OP: I'm a big desert wine fan, but there's a lot of territory here, what would you consider cheap?

I regularly cellar ice wines (Eisweins), vintage ports, a couple Sauternes, some Beerenauslese and on occasion a Trockenbeerenauslese. It would be extremely rare for me to spend less than $30 on any of these, even half bottles. However, if you do need to stay below that I'd agree with the recommendation for a Tawny or LBV Port. If you want whites, then given how young you are I'd hope your younger brother can't tell the difference between the good stuff and the cheap stuff, and just dig up some cheap German Auslese and see if that does the trick? I'd also agree that the Bonny Doon Muscat is pretty good for the price.