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Re: Strong wine with a horse on the label

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In Reply to: Strong wine with a horse on the label posted by Wooody on September 14, 2003 at 12:29:58:

I can't think of any labels in particular, however as you may know alcohol levels are dependent on the amount of sugar present in the juice at the time of fermintation. So you should look for a port or madiera, or even a german wine, like a gewertztraminer. Trembachenauslesse, has the highest sugar content of german wines and can be very expensive, but if you are having dinner it would be wonderful to finish with.

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Re: Strong wine / sweet wine - Notnecessarily 09:23:26 10/30/03 (0)
"Trembachenauslesse, has the highest sugar content of german wines and can be very expensive"
A couple of things:
First, I believe you have confused "Trimbach" an Alsatian winemaker with the term "Trocken" which (here's more confusion) by itself means "dry" but when used as a prefix as in "Trockebeerenauslese" is the indication of the sweetest of German wines (familiarly known as TBA).
Secondly, TBA wines, while high in sugar at harvest, are fermented to be a sweet dessert wine as you note. Therfore they retain much of that sugar - it does not convert to alcohol. Sweet German wines are generally low in alcohol, as low as 7-9%.
For the original poster, a couple of things:
"Proof" is not used for wines. "Proof" is actually double the alcohol content - 80 proof whiskey is 40% alcohol. A 13 proof wine would be only 6.5% alcohol. That's ale or stout.
Secondly, try looking for a late harvest / late picked Zinfandel. They can approach 16% alcohol.

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