dessert wine

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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

You could drink Village Ghost sato as a dessert wine, but there’s nuance and richness — a sort of earthiness — complementing its sweet quality.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2024

Two years ago Prosecco winemakers and local officials in Italy rose up after the European Union agreed to consider an application by Croatia to recognize a method of making a dessert wine called Prosek.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023

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