‘Sweetness is a consolation,yet we in the wine trade are oddly snobbish about people who like sweet wines in a way we’d never be about preferring dessert’I’ve been thinking a lot about sweet drinks since my husband died final month (which is why I’ve been on leave from the column). First, I drank practically nothing but strong sweet tea, and then I found myself pouring demi-sec champagne Veuve Clicquot,since you examine – with fruit cake after the funeral. (A surprisingly first-rate match. Give it a try.)Sweetness is a consolation, yet we in the wine trade are oddly snobbish about people who like sweet wines in a way we’d never be about preferring dessert to cheese, and say,or choosing a flat white over an espresso. It’s seemingly OK to admit to having a taste for port, but an off-dry red (unless it’s amarone) is somehow regarded as naff. Not having much of a sweet tooth myself, or normally I may have been guilty of that,too. Mea culpa.
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Source: theguardian.com