Thursday, April 30, 2009

LIST OF DESSERT WINE AVAILABLE IN SINGAPORE

Gosh I really enjoy dessert wine, the sweet taste and the easy-to-drink label is perfect for me. I will write about dessert wine special for dessert wine lover in Singapore, even though the dessert wines in here are limited and expensive but it's still better than none. Have to thank winedragon.blogspot.com and wineofthepeople.lifejournal.com for their effort reviewing wines so I could find out more about dessert wines.

In Cold storage :
  1. "Brown Brothers" special late harvested orange muscat and flora austral, 375 ml. S$21.7
  2. "Trentham Noble Taminga", 375 ml.
  3. "Riverbreeze" soft sweet wine
  4. "Firstchoice" medium muscat sweet. S$22
  5. "Chateau manos 2002 cadillac". S$30
  6. "Monkey Bar" dessert wine.
  7. Canadian ice wines with a price about S$125
In Ntuc Fairprice:
  1. "Brown brothers" special late harvested orange muscat and flora austral, 375 ml.
  2. "Black tower rivaner"
  3. "Montana", new zealand wine. late harvest selection. S$28.7
  4. "Moscato d'asti" it's confirm as the dessert wine from Italy. The price is about$36.
  5. "Riverbreeze" soft sweet wine.
  6. "Vidal" Canadian ice wine, S$75.
In Carrefour:
  1. Sauternes wines (I think in Carrefour they have about 3/4 ranges of varieties), just look into carrefour's wine cellar.
  2. "Samous Vin Doux" Greek Wine. High quality of wine. S$45 and "Samos Grand Cru", S$44. (I wonder if both wines are actually same just carrefour's employees put it in different places)
  3. "Chateau haut-galouchet bordeaux molleaux". S$22
  4. "Vidal" Canadian Ice wine S$75.
  5. New Zealand ice wine S$30.
In Market place:
  1. 1 sauternes wine that I forgot the name in market place in Paragon. The price is above than S$50.
  2. "Samos Grand Cru", S$44. Greek wine.
  3. "Moscato Lemnos", Greek wine. 500 ml.
  4. "Brown brothers" special late harvested orange muscat and flora austral, 375 ml.
  5. "Monkey Bar" dessert wine.
Note: Sauternes is a white dessert wine originally from French, Bordeaux. To confirm whether it's a dessert wine or not please do check the label behind the bottle. (not guarantee for any price changes).

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Thailand Sparkling Wine

I got 2 bottles of wine from Thailand exhibition in Thai embassy few days ago. Rose sparkling wine (5% of alcohol) and red sparkling wine (6% of alcohol), it came with small bottle. The seller guy couldn't explain to me what grape used to make those 2 wine so I don't know the variety of the grapes. I'm just feeling curious of what can Thailand wine offer?

The answer:
The rose wine is ok and light, the taste is quite sweet but the quality is not up to French level yet also the smell of the wine is not as strong as other wine. While for the red wine, the taste is a bit sweet and just so so, not very impressive, drinking it is not different like drink a coke. So I'm thinking that I wasted my money for this wine, they should sell it for S$2/ bottle instead of S$4. The rose wine is still acceptable but the red wine is not very good. Too bad I didn't take any pic for the rose wine because I finished it 1st. This pic is only the red wine and they also gave me a key chain and a free bottle opener (not bad for $8).