Sweet stuff: The pick of dessert wines

After-dinner wines can be

After-dinner wines can be “wonderfully complex, warming, and aromatic,” said Kara Newman in Wine Enthusiast. Yet they are often dismissed as being “too sweet,” perhaps because some consumers assume they are all alike. In fact, there are three different kinds.

Sauternes and Tokaji from Hungary are examples of late-harvest or botrytized wines made from grapes left on the vine to “dry out and sweeten” them. Wines made from grapes that have frozen on the vine are called ice wines. And then there are fortified wines, such as Madeira, Port, and sherry, to which brandy is added. Some of the best sweet options just now are late-harvest wines. Here’s a selection, with tasting scores based on a 100-point scale:

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