Dessert Wine named after Prince song good with bon-bons, quirky teenage comedies 

Maybe re-think that hat

I found this wine a couple of months ago at our local snobby all-organic recycled materials coffeeshop that has recently opened across the street from a grocery store of the same name and vein. These are good places to find enviable beards, a knowledgeable cheese-lady, and as it turns out, a chalkboard recommendation for a dessert wine. A small bottle (maybe referred to as a ‘half-bottle’?) runs $15.99 at aforementioned grocery store, and at 12% ABV, you and a couple friends can feel pleasantly boozed as you find yourself going back to your friend’s freezer without any of those pesky inhibitions to have another chilly dark chocolate ice cream bon bon she purchased from Trader Joe’s. Previously, we have consumed said dessert wine with brownie bites; I felt that the ice cream bon-bons felt more pleasingly decadent.

A quick google search tells the casual reader this about dessert wines: “Very sweet desserts can overwhelm the palate and make wine taste blunted or sour. Consider avoiding, say, something from the esteemed confectioners at Hostess. If you’re a chocolate nut, consider going with a darker chocolate to emphasize the sweetness of the wine, rather than compete with it.” Another affirmation for pairing with those dark chocolate ice cream bon-bons.

The specific source of this wine ( from Virginia) will have to be supplied by our fine hosts for the night, as I left the bottle with them, but the label features a gender-ambiguous person in presumably a beret, given the wine’s name: raspberry beret.

I don’t have a lot of dessert wine experience, but this was too sweet to taste very, uh, wine-y to me. I imagine that if I were fifteen, this would be all I would want to drink. Like, while I watched Titanic or something.