Not Port but sweet stuff.

[Frederick Blais]

Tonight I drank a "vin de paille" translated "straw wine". Spirale produced by
Domaine André et Mireille Tissot. It is not really a vin de paille as they required 9% of alcool by the AOC, but they find it was so good at 8% so they bottled it like this.

It is a white sweet wine from Jura, France. They pick the grapes and let them dry on straw to concentrate the flavor, just as they do with Amarone.

The color is gold with amber edges, it is very viscous in the glass, reminds me of an old Xeres. The nose shows nice concentration of honey, allspice, dried figs and raisin, with only 8% of alcool I would have like more freshness though. The mouth is full and heavy, very siruppy, very smooth with the same flavours as on the nose with nutty flavours, very seductive but very sticky. It was a half bottle for 6 people and it was enough. Very interesting wine, the first time I had this. It is not cheap, around 45$us for half bottle.