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Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day
more civilised," observed the sage gourmet and wine scribe, Andre Simon.
With the season of significant dining shortly upon us, it's time to
break out the wines that befit these special celebrations.
Given our national love of desserts, it's surprising that sweet or
dessert wines are not more popular. It may be that consumers think that
if they're spending $30-plus on a bottle of wine it should be bigger
than the 375ml bottle that dessert wines often are.
And why are they this size? Sweet wines are complicated beasts to get right, needing certain weather patterns to allow the grapes an extended level of ripeness, and the ongoing winemaking process is and fraught with a high degree of difficulty.