refused to sell bottles to anyone who said they wanted to pair it with dessert. Like most wines in the Old World, Sauternes wine is named for the region in Bordeaux where the grapes are grown.

There are other regions in which this same method of producing dessert wines is used, but none have quite captured the fame of Sauternes, in part because of Bordeaux’s long history of exporting ...

Every year, I try to come up with something new to say about what to drink with your turkey dinner. For the past few holidays, I’ve been quite entranced with rosé – and I still am. But I’ve ...

I had a chance to visit the region recently, traveling as a guest of CIVB, the Bordeaux Wine Council. Happily, Texas continues to be a solid importer of the classic Sauternes dessert wines ...

You can certainly go with a Sauternes, a port or a beerenauslese ... this is the first dessert wine the Ojai Vineyard’s Helen and Adam Tolmach have made from Riesling. First take in its lovely ...

a die-hard Château d’Yquem fan (so much so that he serves the precious Sauternes by the glass at Osteria Francescana) for his thoughts on where “dessert wines” stand in society today.

Sauternes: Dependent on the noble rot, this premier French dessert wine tends to have a honeyed quality to it. Chateau d'Yquem is ground zero for sauternes. Vin Santo: Produced mainly in Tuscany ...