Pudding Wine

[andrewlee]

Why is it so expensive?   (PS Justacademic, as a I don't like itanyway!)

[Andy008]

It isn't, most muscat wines are about �5 per 50 cl bottle, right up to Chateau Y'Quem at about �80.

It's only expensive if your skint/tight.

[andrewlee]

Point taken, Andy, but in many restaurants the price per glass/half bottle is way over the main reds and whites.

[Pinotage]

Good question - several answers because there are several different types. Fortified wines such as Port have higher tax - although they are good value. Sweet wines made from nobly rotted grapes (such as d'Yquem) are always expensive because its a rare condition, grapes are picked individually and the amount of juice produced is infentessimal.

[Andy008]

Pudding wines have a rather staid, stuffy image in the UK. I like them, but many people don't and I can see why - after a heavy meal, many simply don't want a sweet pudding washed down with an even sweeter wine.

As for expense, such wines are an occassional purchase, like smoking Monte Cristos, it's just something you don't do every day, so allows for a higher price to be charged which people don't mind paying.