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Tawny, Aged 20 Years Tawny, 1991 Vintage Port, and Raspberry Passport. My favorite of the line-up was the 20 year old tawny, but I couldn’t justify the $41 for 375 ml. Then up the road to Quady Winery, where I caught up to...

Berkeley’s César makes this irresistible version that is spiked with blood oranges.

That dusty bottle at the back of your liquor cabinet deserves some respect.

my husband and i are spending some time in napa and sonoma and we both enjoy dessert wines, especially muscats. are there any wineries we should be visiting to taste sweet wines?

banana-like, which I’m hoping will blow off but I’m worried is a byproduct of less than ideal yeast fermentation conditions. Vya is made by Quady winery out in Madera (between Fresno and Merced in the San Joaquin...

If you can find Vya vermouth (from the Quady winery in California) you may be very pleasantly surprised. Maybe not for cooking, but it’s incredible in a martini, and is very nice as an apertif.

We’ve been having a lot of fun with Vya from California. It’s made in sweet or dry versions. Here’s a link to a discussion about it and Quady winery in Madera.

Do you like dessert wines? Quady Winery in Madera produces some excellent dessert varities. Essensia is especially good mixed with sparkling water to cut the sweetness. (Oh no, did I just admit to drinking a wine spritzer??)

Quady is also a nice place to taste — if you get tired of the overly-touristy wineries of the more famous wine regions of California, you might want to check out the Madera Country Wine Trail. A lot of the producers in that...

I like Electra, a wine made from Orange Muscat grapes, produced by Quady Winery (California). It’s only 4 per cent alcohol, sweet, and slightly sparkling. I think it’s about $8 for a half-bottle (375 ml). However, I...

. It’s called Vya—made in both sweet and dry—and is produced by the Quady Winery near Fresno, California. Made in small quantities, the vermouth is gentle and harmonious and excludes very bitter or astringent botanicals. Carpano...

options you should consider include Vya Extra Dry, a wonderful artisanal vermouth from the Quady winery in Madera, CA (their Sweet is also outstanding); Lillet Blanc (not quite vermouth, but French, white, fortified, and...

since I don’t know of any American made Tawny ports. If you must have American your choices will be much more limited. The only one that might be commonly available that comes to my mind is Quady. Sauternes may be a good...

but the selection is not in our hands here. That said, my dessert was really wonderfully done but tasted like I’ve had it before. Same wine all around. 2007 Quady Winery Black Muscat Elysium (CA) is a big-ole sticky mess of...