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Old 06-20-2012, 02:36 PM   #16  
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Chateau St. Michelle Riesling is my favorite sweeter wine. It's not overwhelmingly sweet, but still very light.
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Old 06-20-2012, 02:52 PM   #17  
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I LOVE sweet wine. My favorites are late harvest Riesling, Gewurstraminer, Muscat (Moscato), Plum Wine, Asti Spumante and Ice Wines.
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Plum wines! I forgot! Try a brand called Ume, it tastes like a cherry lollipop
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Old 06-20-2012, 03:34 PM   #19  
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Oh, and try Chocolate Shoppe. It's a sweet red wine with a hint of chocolate. It's not syrupy, and it is delicious!

Another good sweet red is called Lambrusco.
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Old 06-20-2012, 03:53 PM   #20  
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Smile Sangria

I made the most delicious sangria the other day. Arbor Mist Strawberry Mango Moscato, Brandy, simple syrup...along with sliced strawberries, oranges, mangos, an apple and raspberries served over ice. The girls loved it!
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Old 06-20-2012, 04:06 PM   #21  
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Oh, so many...As far as sweet reds, Riunite Lambrusco is VERY cheap in stores and is cheap and is almost slightly bubbly. My favorite was always "Sweet Walter Red" by Bully Hill Vineyards in NY, it's very sweet. Another NY sweet red table wine by Hazlitt 1852 vineyards is called "Red Cat" and it's also very sweet. All of the ones listed above are like, SODA POP sweet as far as wines go.

Moscato and White Zinfandel is going to be the sweetest as far as whites go.

If you are going to buy a Riesling as previously suggested, look on the bottle for it to say "LATE HARVEST" -- that means the grapes were on the vine long enough to develop lots of sugars, and they will be sweet. (Ice wines are ones where the grapes have been through a frost, so they are on the vine a VERY long time and are even sweeter.)
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I second Zinfandels... even the reds are pretty sweet.
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I am going to have FUN FUN FUN buying and tasted EVERY wine listed. LOL

Well a girl has to be sure, so I have to try them ALL. LOL
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Old 06-20-2012, 05:03 PM   #24  
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I have tried most of the Moscatos (because I adore them) and IMO Barefoot is the best, hands down. I keep going back to it and usually buy it when it is 2/$10 at Kroger.
Barefoot also makes a Red Moscato that, surprisingly, I like just as well, and unlike other red wines, it is best cold.
I also read somewhere that a moscato wine is made from a grape that has more reservatrol (not sure how to spell that) than most red wines! That is the compound in wine that has health benefits. A win/win!
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Mmmm, I love Red Cat! White Cat is yummy, too - and I love to drink local. I like to mix sweet wine with seltzer - spritzer!

I agree with checking out a local winery. Lots of them do free or cheap tastings, so you can try before you buy.
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FYI - on this forum's recommendation I purchased a bottle of Red Moscato to take with me and my fiancé on a picnic this afternoon. Long flat's 2011 moscato, some smoked salmon on onion focaccia sandwiches and Havarti cubes, red grapes and blue cheese crackers (I'm using my entire calorie allotment for this feast, ha!)

Coupled with a hookah on the sandy river bank in a nearby nature reserve. Should be a fantastic time!
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Mmmm, I love Red Cat! White Cat is yummy, too - and I love to drink local. I like to mix sweet wine with seltzer - spritzer!

I agree with checking out a local winery. Lots of them do free or cheap tastings, so you can try before you buy.
I will definitely look for free or cheap wine tastings.
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FYI - on this forum's recommendation I purchased a bottle of Red Moscato to take with me and my fiancé on a picnic this afternoon. Long flat's 2011 moscato, some smoked salmon on onion focaccia sandwiches and Havarti cubes, red grapes and blue cheese crackers (I'm using my entire calorie allotment for this feast, ha!)

Coupled with a hookah on the sandy river bank in a nearby nature reserve. Should be a fantastic time!
Awwwwwwwwww, that sounds soooooooo nice. I know that you all will have a great time. Keep us posted on everything turns out and how the wine taste.
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Although the following Stella Rosa is way too sweet for me, several of my family members like it. You can pick it up at Ralph's, it is a bottom shelf wine and reasonably priced...around $10-$12 a bottle.


http://www.supermarketliberation.com...1_archive.html

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The moscato was -very- sweet, it tasted like spiked grape juice,which is by no means a bad thing. As for the picnic itself, the fiancé failed to inform me that the path to the sand bar required Indiana jones-esque bushwhacking and a knee high wade through a rushing river. So I got a good work out getting there.

We ran into some nudists sitting around the opposite side of the beach, we kept to ourselves for a while till they started walking around and getting very close to us, trying to shock us with their floppy bits. I,for one, am not easily intimidated! I whipped my shirt and bra off and got a nice tan on my ta-tas!
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