In Australia, De Bortoli produces Noble One, a botrytis-infected sweet wine, and Brown Brothers has a fresh, citrus-dominant wine made from Orange Muscat and Flora.

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To counter pizza's two main ingredients, tomato and mozzarella, he says the wine needs acidity and a generous proportion of sweet fruit.

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While producers 25 miles northwest in Bordeaux can sell their reds and whites relatively easily, sweet wine is out of fashion.

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Sixteen small bottles of sweet white dessert wine have already been produced and the aim is to fill 94 magnums with the sparkling wine.

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Your suite comes complete with a king-size bed, a wet bar for your pinot grigio, bathrooms with double marble vanities, sitting areas and windows that open up to the sweet wine country air.

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Joe Ely is best known around these parts as one of the Flatlanders, the other two being Butch Hancock, whom I first met in Terlinqua, Texas, another Texas cultural center (they have the annual chili cook-off), and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, whose voice is sweeter than sweet wine.

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Austria, too, has a growing reputation for sweet wine, with producers such as Nittnaus, Hiedler, Tinhof and Willi Opitz.

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Food stalls dish out hearty country dishes like locro (a meaty stew from northwest Argentina), deep-fried empanadas, and humitas (lightly sweetened corn meal wrapped in corn husks), all washed down with sweet patero wine - this is La Feria de Mataderos, an authentic celebration of Argentine country traditions.

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