If you love sweet and/or sparkling wine try these

I like sweet wines, semi-sweet, late harvest, Muscat grapes. 

Gewurztraminer is a grape variety, from Germany and many other places where it is known unofficially as one of the four noble (i.e. best) grapes of Alsace, alongside  Riesling, pinot gris and muscat. The name, gewurztraminer, means spicy. 

The sparkle in wines distracts the drinker and disguises the dry taste. But Champagnes come in a range of dryness to passably semi-sweet.

For sparkling wines, the expensive French wine is from the region of Champagne, the bottled Champagne from the Loire valley, places near Paris in the North, are favourites for Christmas Dinner (actually mid-day lunch), New Year's Eve and weddings.

Cheaper in price, but increasingly catching up in quality and price,

Photo by Angela Lansbury.

is Cava from Spain. Barcelona region, mostly. 

Finally, my favourite, Italy's cheap and cheerful Prosecco, for everyday prices.

From Italy, Prosecco marketing and popularity has apparently overtaken the 1960s favourite, Asti spumante (sparkling) and Asti Gancia. Asti is the place name. Spumante means sparkling.

From France:

In France you can tour the Champagne cellars. Wine with bubbles not from the Champagne region is called cremant (creamy - becasue of the white froth). I have a few more favourites from further south.

Beaunes de Venise - the older the better.

From the south

It is very expensive to make, picked grape by grape.

Port wine with dessert.

Perfect Prosecco? - Perfect Price!

From Tesco

Small bottles of Prosecco. A reduction if you buy three.

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