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
It offers five varieties, including a shiraz, a cabernet-merlot blend and a dessert wine.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
Prosecco defenders say the name Prosek has never been uniformly applied and came to mean even a generic form of dessert wine.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
Like dessert, wine is shown thought at Q, and the service is tops.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2019
But water was available only to the children, while the rest were to revive themselves with a dessert wine at room temperature.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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