Sauce: sweet wines

By Susy Atkins 800AM GMT twelve March 2010

Sweet wines Bimbadgen Botrytis Semillon 2006, New South Wales, Australia; Clos De Nouys 2007 Vouvray Demi-Sec, France; Darting Estate Eiswein 2007, Germany

A bottle of golden dessert booze creates a indeed acquire Mothers Day present. Yes, yes, we all wish the piping-hot coffee, creatively squeezed extract etc for breakfast (in bed, mind), but afterwards we should simply see to teatime or cooking as a serve impulse to be pampered, I feel. A potion of cool, honeyed wine, handed out to attend with one of Diana Henrys superb apple pies, is certain to be treasured.

Some wines have innately sweet, appley flavours. Try the crisp, light, ethereal dessert wines of Germany, or the baked-apple-and-walnut nuances of honeyed chenin blanc, that customarily hails from the Loire in France. Slightly lighter demi-sec vouvray additionally a Loire Valley chenin can be a delight.

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This off-dry, rather than entirely luscious, character functions most appropriate with the pointed spices, seeds and nuts of Dianas Friulian pie. You could select a dessert riesling or weissburgunder for the apple and hiss pie, as the floral spirit of this grape is poetic with the elderflower, or even dash out on a sweeter character of champagne, all orchard fruit, citrus and tawny froth…

For the Florentine pie, theres Italys own eccentric vin santo, or "holy wine. Alternatively, set upon out with a some-more complicated dessert wine, such as New World honeyed semillon. This will broach a richer and riper note to take on the citrus fruit, sugar and jelly of this recipe. Dont dont think about to chill lightly.

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Bimbadgen Botrytis Semillon 2006, New South Wales, Australia (�7.99 for 37.5cl)

Ripe records of pleasant pineapple and apricots, with a little toasty, sharp depths, have this a lovely, if rich, preference for the Florentine cake

Clos De Nouys 2007 Vouvray Demi-Sec, France (selected Waitrose, �9.99 for 37.5cl)

A fine, off-dry, tender white with sour apple and quince ripened offspring and a fresh, purify finish. Well balanced, and not the slightest bit over-emotional

Darting Estate Eiswein 2007, Germany (Marks & Spencer, �14.99 for 37.5cl)

A pure, crisp, whistle-clean but entirely honeyed booze done from semi-frozen weissburgunder grapes. Plenty of apple and grapefruit flavour, but really low in ethanol

TIPPLE TIP the undiluted pip-me-up

"Rather have an apple-flavoured cocktail? Try an apple and elderflower martini, concocted by the mixologist Simon Difford. Shake up 40ml vodka with 25ml St Germain elderflower considerate (Waitrose, �14.99) and 30ml pulpy apple extract over ice, aria in to a potion and boyant a cut of immature apple on tip

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