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

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

It is now generally consumed as a dessert wine and, as a rule, should be served at cool cellar temperature, but not cold.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2022

Up until at least the 1980s, some wineries made a sweet, fortified dessert wine with mission called Angelica.

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 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