: a usually sweet wine typically served with dessert or afterward
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Since dessert wines can be sweeter, this size is perfect for small sips.—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025 Choose Sauternes for golden dessert wines, Arcachon Bay for oysters, and Saint-Émilion’s limestone catacombs.—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025 There's also a nice selection of amari and dessert wines.—Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025 Emily Chen, sommelier at La Compagnie Wine Bar in New York’s Flatiron neighborhood, suggests a dessert-style vessel such as Ravenscroft Crystal Scotch snifter for fortified or dessert wines like Port, Sauternes, or Tokaji.—Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 10 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for dessert wine
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