David Hill Winery Estate Muscat Port 375ml

This wine really swept us away. This wine and dessert were clearly lovers in a past life. It's hard to know where to start without totally gushing. First of all, this is a Port style wine. Twenty percent alcohol, so the delivery system is already supercharged.

Here's what so impressed us: Big lichee nut and soft peach flavors with an echo of some sweet orange at the end. Not acidic citrus, but sweet. At the back of the tongue there was this unctuous honey, nutmeg and mace thing going on that helped the Vulcan mind meld with the hazelnut dessert. If you like stickies, you'd be insane not to order this wine. I kid you not. -ms

From the winery: "In the tradition of Greece and Southern France, we offer you this fine port made out of White Muscat grapes from the Willamette Valley. We aged this "Nectar of the Gods" in 132 gallon French oak puncheons. It has intense, intoxicating peach, gooseberry, and licorice aromas and flavors, with a soft caramel background. The wine is best consumed slightly chilled as an APertif with olives, almonds, walnuts; with hot or spicy food; or blue cheese and fresh pears."