Jill Barth Wines and Spirits of Provence

Favourite Dessert Wines from Provence and Southern France

Dessert Wines Provence Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise

As I mentioned in my earlier post this week: I remember the first time I sipped a Muscat de Beaumes de Venise, a vin doux naturel (VDN, naturally sweet wine) from France’s Southern Rhône Valley. It was with Patrick Soard and his daughter Justine, of Domaine de Fenouillet, on their property – neighbours with Mont Ventoux and the Dentelles de Montmirail.

…Continue reading here to learn about this vineyard and their process for turning Muscat grapes into this sweet nectar. It starts with a vendange tardive and botrytis. Jill has other favourite dessert wines from Provence including from the neighbouring vineyards in Rasteau, which is both a Cru and an AOP. We will let Jill explain all the technical stuff.

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Jill Barth

Jill is a writer whose characters make wine, love wine, and live wine. Research for her forthcoming novel–the story of a Provençal winemaking family during the Second World War–has afforded her glorious pleasures: meetings with ambitious French vignerons, travel up and down France in bouncy Renaults, overnights in shuttered châteaux, and many hours as a student of wine with a glass to her lips. In this role, she not only enjoys her own relationship with wine but she also indulges in the life of the French winemaking family that inhabits the pages of her novel.

Jill writes about wine, travel and occasionally yoga (she’s a certified yoga instructor). Her fiction has been featured on NPR and has been published in several literary journals.

Her writings can also be found on her blog L’Occasion.

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