Semillon is a type of grape. Semillon is used to make the sauternes wines, which are sweet wines, usually called "dessert wines" because they are good "companions" to a dessert. However, Semillon is also used, with Sauvignon Blanc, to make white Bordeaux that are not sweet. It all depends on the intentions of the winemaker.
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Merlot wines tend to be on the dry side (in wine talk, "dry" is the opposite of "sweet", and nowadays even most "sweet" wines are not really THAT sweet). If you want a wine that's actually what a non-wine person would consider sweet, look for something labeled as a "dessert" wine, such as a Moscato.
There are many popular brands of sweet red wines. Some of the more popular sweet red wines would include port, Lambrusco, and various fruit based wines to name a few.
The prefix semi- added to "sweet" would make semi-sweet, which means "partly sweet."
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Mascato tends to be a sweeter white and all white dessert wines are sweet.
There are different types of sweet wines. Ice wine and mascotto or muscat are 2 types of dessert wines. Ice wine is mostly from Canada and northern part of Main. Muscatto or muscat can come from all over the world. A German Riesling can depend on the wine maker and when the grapes where picked as to how sweet it will be. In my oppinon thoes or the best sweet white wines. There are sweet reds too.
Sweetness in wine can vary tremendously. What someone thinks of as a sweet wine, another might might not think is sweet at all. So without getting into percentages of sugar content here are some wines intended to be sweet. French Sauternes, Ports, Oloroso Sherry, Commandaria, Tokaji Aszu, most wines labelled 'late harvest', Italian Brachetto d'aqui, and many more.
It is unknown what his favourite wine in particular was but he would have drunk the finest French wines and sweet wines from Turkey.
The cast of Semi-Sweet - 2007 includes: Kyla Springer as Cathy