Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

A California crossing (Semillon × Gewürztraminer) — perfumed, lightly floral, mostly used in late-harvest dessert styles. Rare but charming.

Works with Red Berry Salad With Vanilla Bean Ice-cream · Orange Syrup Cake With Vanilla Bean Ice Cream · Upside-down Pear Cake And Vanilla Bean Ice-cream

A perfumed Muscat variant grown in California and Australia — orange blossom, mandarin, dried apricot. Almost always made as a dessert wine.

Works with Red Berry Salad With Vanilla Bean Ice-cream · Upside-down Pear Cake And Vanilla Bean Ice-cream

Dessert · Medium · Sweet

A perfumed Muscat variant grown in California and Australia — orange blossom, mandarin, dried apricot. Almost always made as a dessert wine.

Sparkling · Light · Sweet

Asti's more refined sibling — gently frizzante, only 5-6% alcohol, all peach and orange blossom. The perfect summer dessert wine.

White · Light · Dry

Italy's everyday white — light, lemony, neutral by design. Pleasant with anything; profound with very little. The best Friuli bottles are quietly excellent.

Rosé · Light · Dry

Provence's gift to summer — dry, pale, faintly strawberry-and-citrus, with low alcohol and crisp acid. Made to drink cold, with food, in the shade.

Dessert · Full · Sweet

Bordeaux's legendary sweet white — Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc hit by noble rot, then patiently fermented. Honey, apricot, candied citrus, and a finish that lasts a small eternity. Pair with foie gras, blue cheese, or a fruit tart.

White · Light · Dry

Citrus, cut grass, and a wire of acid. Marlborough makes it loudest; Sancerre makes it most refined. Either way, it cuts cleanly through goat cheese, herbs, and anything with shellfish.

Australian off-dry Muscat (Lexia is the Australian name for Muscat of Alexandria) — peach, honey, jasmine. The Australian everyday off-dry white.