2006 Dessert/Fortified Wines from Wineries List: M

This is a French dessert wine style that traces it’s origins back two millennia. It’s grown on the steep rocky vineyards of Beaumes and the way it’s made is unique, as the sun reflects off the imposing limestone edifice known as the Dentilles de Frontignan. The wine is made with the Muscat grape and delivers a late picked style that is unique and delicious. It’s lifted with sweet fruit and flowers but it’s tremendously balanced between fruit sweetness and acids. Great length on the finish ensures it works well with desserts of fruit or chocolate.

Light golden green in colour the wine has quince and pineapple characters with citrus overtones. The palate is rich and luscious without being cloying with delicious nuts and dried fruit flavours coupled with distinctive Hunter Valley citrus.The wine finishes long and clean with fresh citrus acidity, which saves it from being cloying. It works well with desserts (as opposed to being too sweet) and provides a perfect contrast when matched with cheese or pate.

Gently sweet and pleasant; once a bookmark, but others have now passed it by.

Went to the expense of custom vintage bottle, with a bulbous neck; the colour is still good, and while the spirit is penetrating, it is not too sweet, with a Portuguese model (rather than traditional Australian) meaning lower baume and spicy blackberry flavours. Great name.

Less overwhelmingly sweet than most; well-balanced and by no means short on flavour — indeed, a full-on dessert wine.

Very good flavour, and in particular good texture and freshness on the finish; moderately sweet, not for the die-hard sugar fan.

Smooth, luscious and slightly syrupy, this mouthfilling late-harvest semillon reveals intense cumquat, melon, apricot and caramel flavours backed by fresh vanilla oak, a spicy clove-like presence and suggestions of pastry. It's maturing quite quickly and finishes quite sweet, with persistent flavours of citrus, stonefruit plus the very faintest lingering hint of raw smoke.