Any restaurant with a bring your own wine liscense is allowed to sell you anything off their list. Only wine though. No beer, booze, or fortified wine. Simply open the bottle, taste the wine, and re-cork the bottle! Happy...

What is the correct serving temperature for fine dessert wines like ice wine, Sauternes and very sweet rieslings? Right now, I’m not discussing fortified wines. But are we talking ice cold (like champagne) or cool/cold (like...

also find them amazing, and they’re cheap. Lastly sherry is a fortified wine made from white grapes, not a red wine. Good luck.

I’m charmed whenever I hear the Italian wine term, Vino da Meditazione or meditation wine. It describes wines meant to be savored alone unaccompanied by food, such as Marsala, other dessert wines and after-dinner fortified...

Pommeau de Normandie is a fortified wine from France made with apple juice and Calvados. It tastes like autumn and packs quite a punch. It’s lovely before or after dinner, excellent with blue cheese. I’m been craving...

Marsala will keep a long, long time. No real need to refrigerate it – it’s a fortified wine that will keep like hard liquor. I once had a bottle in my kitchen for more than a year and it was still good for cooking...

I know you either love them or HATE them. I love’em. I’m looking for any suggestions for some reasonably priced (under $60) sweet wines. Ice wines, late harvest, noble rot, sweet Rieslings or Gewürztraminers, etc.,...

cooked or mildly caramelized flavour. Wines processed at excessively high temperatures may taste burnt and harsh. Most such wines and especially those made from American vines or American hybrids are fortified and sweetened before...

.01% and (IIRC) 21% are taxed at a different rate, and are often described as "fortified" even though no fortification has taken place. Sparkling wines are taxed at yet another rate, and so on and so on . . . .

yeasts and use a fortified wine like sherry or sweet vermouth hoping the alcohol content will be high enough that it won’t ferment. Has anyone ever tried this and did it work?

as fortified wines.

for 1er Cru Bdx., Burgs, Vintage Ports, and some few other wines, especially some of the fortified, or dessert wines. Many wines, that folk “assume” will age for that long, will not. Hunt

What bars/pubs have them in town? DaisGamay? ChamPena? A Cabernet Francona? Maybe SF could name a sherry or a port or a Thunderbird after Barry Bonds. (har har, a fortified wine).

available. The fortified wines (port, sherry, madeira, et al) selection is more extensive than most restaurants or wine bars, and I’d go there for that specialty. But the representation of table wines offered by the glass...

to sites such as those I mentioned (and others, such as Roy Hersh’s site that focuses on fortified wines) — at least to me — is the discussion portion of the site(s). It permits me to better understand the...