Dessert wine wine is also made in the United States, Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Italy, Australia, France and New Zealand in smaller quantities. Some of the most famous dessert wines, such as Château d'Yquem of Sauternes and Tokaji Aszú of Tokaj-Hegyalja in Hungary, or Seewinkel in Austria are made using grapes mouldy with "Botrytis cinerea", which sucks water out of the grape whilst imparting flavours of honey and apricot to the future wine. The fungus requires specific conditions to produce noble rot; if it is too damp, the same fungus causes destructive grey rot. Vignerons must ensure that they
Château Filhot Sauvignon blanc and 4% Muscadelle. Their annual production is an average of 6500 cases. The second wine is called Chateau Pineau du Rey. Château Filhot Château Filhot, archaically named Maison Noble de Verdoulet, is a winery rated "Deuxième cru classé" (French, “Second Growth”) in the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855, from the Sauternes appellation in Gironde. Considered by some unjustly omitted from the "Premier cru" classification, Filhot produces a drier wine than Château d'Yquem, with an unusually high alcohol content for a Sauternes. The vineyard dating from the 1630s, the château was founded by Romain de Filhot in 1709.