dessert wine
Noun
Meaning
still sweet wine often served with dessert or after a meal
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In the absence of other techniques, makers of dessert wine have to produce their sugar in the vineyard.
It matures to a sweet, dark amber-orange, unctuous dessert wine that has achieved worldwide fame, possessing the standard Assyrtiko aromas of citrus and minerals, layered with overtones of nuts, raisins, figs, honey and tea.
In the UK, a dessert wine is considered to be any sweet wine drunk with a meal, as opposed to the white citation fortified wines (fino and amontillado sherry) drunk before the meal, and the red fortified wines ( port and madeira ) drunk after it.
Lovely Portuguese dessert wine, with black fleshy plums and prunes and dried fig aromas and flavours.
Hungary has several wine regions producing among others the worldwide famous white dessert wine Tokaji and the red Bull’s Blood.
There is no simple definition of a dessert wine.