Confess your sweet tooth Sweet wines have a place at the table, even before dessert. Many dishes, you see, are sweet. Sweet dishes most frequently challenge any wine to have comparable or greater sweetness. This is clearly the rule for dessert. But the same principle applies for table wines.
Most tomato sauces are sweet.
So, too, are many Asian dishes, especially when prepared by, or for, non-Asians. And many of the classic and modern French dishes, duck a l orange or bigerade, French onion soup, Boudin aux Pommes, and all the dishes with heavy cream, are usually proferred as fairly sweet dishes. If the sweetness in a dish is not matched by a comparable sweetness in the wine, the wine will likely seem bland or unpleasantly tart. Experience shows that fruitiness can stand in for sweetness. The preceding observations don t negate the notion that there is simplicity in food and drink.