dessert wine
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dessert wine
First recorded in 1765–75
Example Sentences
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Ice wine is made from grapes that freeze on the vine and are pressed while still frozen, creating a sweet, almost syrupy dessert wine.
From Salon • Mar. 30, 2025
I’d serve it with lemon-ginger tea, but coffee, milk or a glass of dessert wine would work just as well.
From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2023
Top choices are the pear and blue cheese flatbread matched with Carter’s Byzance red; polenta fries washed down with an Italian-style Tuttorosso; and chai bread pudding paired with the Opulento dessert wine.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2022
A forgotten barrel of 2013 tannat became the base for Bone Orchard, a fortified, port-style dessert wine with a metal label and a rather macabre representation of the gate at the winery entrance.
From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2022
She swirled the dessert wine they’d used to conceal the sweetness, but in the bronze goblet, it was difficult to see the color.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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