Sweet Wine: Moscato, Dessert, Fortified & Luscious Sweet Sippers

Popular Sweet Wine Styles

Moscato is the crowd favourite, a light, low alcohol white bursting with grape, peach and honeysuckle. Look for lightly sparkling Moscato and gently fizzy Moscato d'Asti.

For pudding, our dessert wine range offers golden Sauternes and Botrytis Semillon, while our fortified wine collection brings rich Port, tawny and Rutherglen Muscat.

You will also find off dry Riesling, sweet sparkling bubbles like Asti, and the odd sweet red or rosé for something different.

How to Serve Sweet Wine

Serve most sweet wines well chilled, around 6 to 8 degrees, which keeps them fresh and lifts their fruit. A small glass is perfect for the richest, sweetest styles.

Lighter sweet wines like Moscato are lovely as an aperitif, while richer dessert and fortified styles shine after dinner.

Food Pairing Ideas

Sweet wine is a natural with dessert, from fruit tarts to creamy cheesecake and blue cheese. Light Moscato is delightful with fresh fruit and pastries.

A good rule of thumb: the wine should be as sweet as, or sweeter than, the dish it is served with.

What Makes a Wine Sweet?

All wine starts sweet, because grapes are full of natural sugar. During fermentation, yeast turns that sugar into alcohol, and a dry wine is simply one where nearly all the sugar is gone.

To make a sweet wine, the winemaker leaves some sugar behind, usually by stopping fermentation early. The result is a wine with lower alcohol and lovely natural sweetness.

Richer styles go further, concentrating the sugar through late harvesting or noble rot, or adding grape spirit to fortify the wine, as with Port and Muscat.

Sweet Wine Questions, Answered

What is the difference between sweet wine and dessert wine?

Dessert wine is a type of sweet wine, the rich, concentrated end of the scale, made to enjoy with pudding. Sweet wine is the wider family, and includes lighter styles like Moscato too.

Is Moscato a sweet wine?

Yes. Moscato is one of the most popular sweet wines of all, light, low in alcohol and gently sparkling, with fresh flavours of grape and peach.

Is sweet wine good for beginners?

Absolutely. Sweet, fruity wines like Moscato are one of the easiest and friendliest ways into wine, approachable, refreshing and never harsh.

Why Buy Sweet Wine at YourWines?

Every sweet wine in our collection is handpicked by our team, from everyday Moscato to the world's finest stickies, all chosen for quality and value. Whatever your sweet tooth, there is a bottle here to love.

If you prefer just a touch of sweetness, our off dry wines sit a step back on the sweetness scale. Indulge away!