Different wines
Dessert Wines
Concentrated sweet wines made by noble rot, freezing, drying or late picking.
Sauternes
Sauternes, Bordeaux.
Botrytised sweet wine from Bordeaux, where autumn mists encourage noble rot that shrivels grapes and concentrates sugar.
Tokaji Aszú
Tokaj, Hungary.
Hungary's historic sweet wine, made by adding botrytised aszú berries to a base wine and measured in puttonyos.
Ice Wine / Eiswein
Germany; perfected commercially in Canada.
Made from grapes frozen on the vine and pressed while still frozen, so only concentrated sweet juice runs off.
Late Harvest Riesling
Germany.
Riesling picked well after normal harvest, giving Spätlese, Auslese and beyond — sweet but held together by acidity.
Vin Santo
Tuscany, Italy.
Tuscan dried-grape wine aged for years in small sealed barrels, oxidative and nutty rather than fresh.