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

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

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022

Croatia argues that the Prosek name and tradition is centuries old, predating Prosecco’s protections in the EU system, and that its place as a dessert wine makes it distinct from Prosecco.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2021

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