dessert wine

“It’s smooth and light, almost like a dessert wine,” says Paul Kamwendo, a local wine enthusiast who has become one of the biggest fans of banana wine in Karonga.

You could drink Village Ghost sato as a dessert wine, but there’s nuance and richness — a sort of earthiness — complementing its sweet quality.

Though often thought of as purely a dessert wine, Tokaji is similar in profile to German rieslings and ranges from dry to extremely sweet.

Two years ago Prosecco winemakers and local officials in Italy rose up after the European Union agreed to consider an application by Croatia to recognize a method of making a dessert wine called Prosek.

It is now generally consumed as a dessert wine and, as a rule, should be served at cool cellar temperature, but not cold.