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Sommeliers love to pair wines with food (it’s a big part of their job, after all), and sweet wines offer plenty of opportunity for creativity. Other sweet wines earn their cachet because of limited production, such as sparkling rosé made with hillside-grown fruit that is backbreaking to pick while still others are lauded due to extensive aging, like a 50-year-old Riesling whose refreshing acidity still shines through the sweetness and accentuates the wine’s flavors. Some sweet wines are lauded for their unique processes, such as a passito made with slow-smoked grapes that are pressed only during Holy Week in Italy. Take ice wine, for instance, whose grapes must be picked and pressed while frozen or Sauternes, whose grapes must be harvested only once they reach a minimum potential alcohol content (or amount of fermentable sugars) of 13 percent alcohol by volume (ABV).

So, we polled somms on the best sweet wines they’ve tasted so far this year.Īll wines are a labor of love, but many sweet wines are especially memorable because of the grape-harvesting process.

But beyond bragging rights, this translates to more inspired pairings for consumers, whether it’s an on-point dessert wine to match a meal’s sweet ending or an unexpected but delightful complement to a savory dinner. Sweet wines provide yet another (but sometimes less celebrated) avenue to broaden their palates and flex their tasting skills.

Many relish in the discovery of tasting new-to-them wines.