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I don’t drink much AT ALL, but I’m hoping to find some cherry wine this week. Maybe someone knows of a sweet, fruity cherry wine that can be drank by it’s self (I think they are called dessert wines?).
A friend had some inexpensive Blackberry Wine a few months ago that was good. No one I know around here are that much into wine. So if anyone has any suggestions or recommendations… 😀
If you can order online,
These guys have awesome fruit wines:
http://www.broadruncheese.com/cgi-bin/htmlos.cgi/00450.1.1423734550366322619
Their blueberry is my favorite. Very sweet, no tannin aftertaste.As do these folks:
http://www.breitenbachwine.com/store_fr.htm
Their ice wine is the best I’ve ever had.We go there a few times a year and load up. We served several different wines from those places at our wedding, along with a sangria wine punch that everyone LOVED. Lemme see if I can go dig up the recipe for it. it’s fruity, refreshing, and you can drink a lot of it. 😆
Found it. 😀
Nancy’s swiss heritage peach sangria
one punch bowl full of ice
1 bag of frozen mixed fruit (can add extra fruit if you like)
1 bottle Swiss Heritage Peach wine
1 can Welch’s frozen white grape/peach concentrate
1 2-liter bottle of 7UPJust toss everything in the bowl and stir. Doesn’t sound like much but it’s soooo refreshing on a summer evening. I’m sure another very sweet peach wine could be substituted.
There is a great sweet dessert wine called Nivoli. It should be available in a grocery store of liquor store.
Pinot Noirs are generally sweeter, and often have cherries in them. I would try to find one of those. They would taste better than dessert wines too.
The very best cherry wine I’ve ever had is a cherry mead. You may not be able to find it locally though…
http://www.meadery.com/images/EECherryCharisma.htmlThis is really the best cherry flavored drink I’ve ever, ever had. 🙂
Anyone that likes mead, these are the finest meads I’ve had in the USA.
http://www.meadery.com/Volunteer mod- I'm here to help! Email me for the best response: nambroth at gmail.com
My art: featherdust.comWolfenMachine wrote:I don’t drink much AT ALL, but I’m hoping to find some cherry wine this week. Maybe someone knows of a sweet, fruity cherry wine that can be drank by it’s self (I think they are called dessert wines?).
A friend had some inexpensive Blackberry Wine a few months ago that was good. No one I know around here are that much into wine. So if anyone has any suggestions or recommendations… 😀
I don’t know where to get it, but I certainly know how to make it. My Dad, and my boyfriend’s Mom are both winemakers. My Dad is going to try making a cherry wine this year (provided we can get cherries before the birds do) in addition to blackberry, and raspberry-blackberry.
As far as dessert wines, you can’t go wrong with a really good bottle of port. Especially if you can find Rosenblum Cellars Chocolate port. If not, Decco makes a chocolate port too that can usually be found at a world market, or something similar.
The absolute best dessert wine I ever tasted was the Granite Springs petite sirah port. It was worth the 200 miles to go and get a half-case of it at the winery itself.
http://www.granitesprings.com/lgs/granitewines.htmlAnd it has cherry tones too! (but it is pricy. But SO worth it. If you can splurge, get a half case, taste one bottle, and age the rest. That is a good culinary investment!)
Hmmm wish I could help, but my area is red, peppery, very dry wines… I can throw out words like Tanic, Legs, and boquet though! Makes me sound smarter 😛
Hey guys, thanks so much for the advice! 😀 Kachina, your recipe sounds awesome! I will try it sometime and let you know how it comes out 🙂
Hi!
There are a few wineries in northern California that have fruit wines, in fact one is in Chico where I live. It’s called Honeyrun Winery and it has cherry, blackberry, elderberry, cranberry, and honeymead wines and they are all organic. They run about $11-$13 per bottle plus shipping. BUT they only ship to about 11 states and Texas isn’t one of them. SO, I don’t know how close you are to NM or what the laws are about sending liquor across state lines. If you google Honeyrun Winery and get the info and see if you want any of their items (I like their wines and I’m partial to sweet dessert wines),maybe I can send you some if the laws allow me to. Another excellent winery with fruit wines is Rapazzini Winery in Gilroy, Calif. They have the best apricot and raspberry wines, and they might ship to Texas. They are more spendy, though. Also there is a very light Italian sweet spumante that is a fruit flavored kind of champagne. When I found it, I fell in love with it and have been drinking it with dinner off and on ever since. It is very light and refreshing and could be mixed with any kind of juice or other fruit wine. I’ll get the name if you are interested. Anyway, those are the best ones I know of off the top of my head. Hope this helps! I’ll keep my ears open for more if you want me to. drgnlvr
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