June 18, 2021

TASCA d’ALMERITA “Mozia” 2019

(Sicily, Italy) $22

Full of delicious personality, Mozia (made from grillo grapes) is a fantastic white wine from the tiny island of Mozia just off the Sicilian coast. Seaspray freshness, snappy crispness, and a core of creamy peachiness.

90 points KM

Available at Mr. D Wine Merchant

When pairing a dessert with a sweet wine, the dessert should be sweeter than the wine to enhance the latter’s flavor.

Answer: False.

The best dessert and dessert wine marriages are usually based on pairing a not-too-sweet dessert with a sweeter wine. Desserts that are sweeter than the wine they accompany can make the wine taste blank and dull. Essentially, the sweetness of the dessert knocks out the character of the wine. Super-sweet wedding cake, for example, will diminish anything in a glass. But something like a not-very-sweet fruit or nut tart enhances the complexities and nuances of the sweeter wines around them.

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TASCA d’ALMERITA “Mozia” 2019

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