Chateau d’Yquem Sauternes 2013, France

This is a delicious dessert wine from France. Sweet on the palate with great complexity.

Showing honey, yellow apples, apricots, spices, sweet nectar, white wild flowers, melons, brown sugar and spices.

Medium bodied with high acidity.

Well balanced with enough acidity to balance the sugars.

Thank you Barry for sharing this with me.

This needs no food. Just sip and enjoy.

This 8 year old will continue age nicely in the next 40 years.

Just delicious.

13.5% alcohol by volume.

97 points.

$160 (375 ml).

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Foyt Family Wines No. 93 The Final Lap Non-Vintage, California 92

Dark ruby in color with a brick rim.

Strong nose of blackberries, sweet cherries, blackberries, dried figs, raisins, vanilla, cedar, licorice, citrus, caramel, alcohol, peppercorn, maple, mocha, coke, chocolates and tobacco.

Medium plus in body with high acidity

Sweet on the palate with blackberries, cherries, blueberries, wood, cloves, vanilla, espresso, cola, spices, peppercorn, chocolates, tobacco, dark coffee and maple.

Long finish with citrus notes and honey.

This is a very tasty sweet dessert wine from California. Nicely balanced with enough acidity to balance out the sugars.

Showing lots of chocolate and coffee notes. Nice and tangy. Would be interesting to see how it evolves in the next 5 years.

Good by itself and good right out of the bottle.

A great dessert wine that will pair nicely with chocolates. I had it all by itself. Yummy and delicious.

18.5% alcohol by volume.

92 points.

$45.

Château de Casenove Muscat de Rivesaltes 1994, France

Light peach in color.

Sweet nose of Mediterranean spices, ripe pears, citrus, peaches, apricots, cinnamon and honey.

Full bodied, bold and sticky, with high acidity and nice legs.

Sweet on the palate with citrus, yellow apples, apricots, melons, honey, tropical fruits, lemons, peaches, cinnamon, over ripe bananas and Mediterranean spices.

Long sweet finish with spices and limes.

This 26 year old French Muscat is awesome. Not too sweet, and nicely balanced with great complexity.

A great dessert wine and better when nicely chilled.

I paired it with Macadamia Nut Sunday in a walfale cone. Yummy and complex.

16% alcohol by volume.

92 points.

Golan Heights Winery Yarden Muscat 2002 Galilee, Israel

Brownish in color with a wide golden hue.

Strong fruity nose with yellow apples, white peaches, wood, dried figs, tobacco, Indian spices, mint, bananas in brandy, black licorice, coffee, eucalyptus, green tea and white flowers.

Full bodied and smooth with medium plus acidity.

Sweet on the palate with yellow apples, apricots, tropical fruits, Mediterranean spices, peppercorn, caramel, coffee, tobacco leaf, mint, bananas and honey.

Long sweet finish with spices.

This is a beautifully aged sweet Muscat from Israel. Showing great complexity on the nose and palate.

Nicely balanced with enough acidity for all that sugar. Good by itself as dessert.

Needs an hour to open up properly and show the complexity.

This 17 year old is delicious and delicate.

13.9% alcohol by volume. Kosher.

97 points.

$15.(current vintage).
500 ml.

Covenant Wines Zahav Late Harvest Botrytis Chardonnay 2016 Sonoma County, California

Pretty golden in color.

Showing Sweet lemons, honey, red apples, melons, pears, tropical fruits, pineapples, bananas and light spices.

Full bodied and syrupy with high acidity and fat legs.

This is a delicious sweet white wine from Sonoma Mountain.

Rich, thick and sweet with enough acidity for the high sugars. Showing nice complexity and a nice mouthfeel.

Could use years in the bottle to mature and get more complexity, but already delicious. If you have the patience to wait 20 years, this would be delightful, and full of complexity.

Wine Enthusiasts 90 points.

I had it all by itself as my dessert. Thank you Barry for sharing.

Made with Late harvest Botrytis Chardonnay grapes from Sonoma County.

147 g/L Residual sugar. Kosher. Not Mevushal.

10% alcohol by volume.

93 points.

$30 (375 ml).