dessert wine

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noun

a sweet wine served with dessert or sometimes after a meal.

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Origin of dessert wine

First recorded in 1765–75

The sweet dessert wine was also drunk during the signing of the Declaration of Independence and was mentioned in several Shakespeare plays.
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Paschina began trying to make a classic-styled dessert wine almost as soon as he took over management of Barboursville.
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The smell of grilled meat mixes with the exotic wafts of cinnamon tea served with a mush of sweet brown dessert.
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I guess we know how Bacchus kept his title as the god of wine and intoxication.
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It was popularized as a holiday dessert in 16th-century England and also is known as Christmas pudding or plum pudding.
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The possibilities seem endless: Who needs a trip to the liquor store when the toddler can turn water into wine, amirite?
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All Champagne is sparkling wine but not all sparkling wine is Champagne.
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HE ordered a lunch which he thought the girl would like, with wine to revive the faculties that he knew must be failing.
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And when wine had unselfed my noble father, you received his passionate insults with forbearance and forgiveness!
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“Let us have some of your best wine to-day, waiter,” said old Wardle, rubbing his hands.
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He smoked two cigars; then he went inside and drank another glass of wine.
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Aristide called on Madame Coquereau, who entertained him with sweet Frontignan wine, dry sponge cakes and conversation.
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