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Sweet Wines
Lou Amdur, owner of LOU in Hollywood, decants sweet wines, also known as dessert wines. All of these wines are non-fortified and 12% alcohol. The grapes for these intensely flavored wines are grown on infertile soil producing fruit packed with flavor.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readLou Amdur, owner of LOU in Hollywood, decants sweet wines, also known as dessert wines. All of these wines are non-fortified and 12% alcohol. The grapes for these intensely flavored wines are grown on infertile soil producing fruit packed with flavor.
LOU
724 N Vine St.
Los Angeles CA 90038
323-962-6369
Amdur recommends:
Malaga: Jorge Ordoñez & Co. "Seleccion Especial" '05: available at Top Line Wine & Spirits and Red Carpet Liquor. $25 - $30. This is from a Spanish importer and Austrian winemaker (who recently passed away.) 100% muscat grapes.
Zeni Moscato DOC Rosa Trentino: Not available locally (except at Lou), but Silverlake Wines can order this wine from the importer.
Chateau de Suronde AOC Quarts de Chaume '04: available at Wine Country in Signal Hill. $125. Silverlake Wine can also order this wine from the importer. This is one of Lou's favorite wines of 2007. Intense and profound wine, it can age 100 years. Explosive flavor. Made in very small quantities from 100% Chenin Blanc grapes.
Sagrantino Passito DOCG Scacciadiavoli '03: available at the Wine House and K&L. $35. Traditional sacramental wine.
1400 Vine Street
Hollywood, CA, 90028
323-464-WINE (9463)
2395 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90039
323-662-9024
2301 Redondo Ave
Signal Hill, CA 90755
562-597-8303
400 E Glenoaks Blvd,
Glendale, CA 91207
818-247-5544
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