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fortified wine
noun
- a wine, as port or sherry, to which brandy has been added in order to arrest fermentation or to increase the alcoholic content.
fortified wine
noun
- wine treated by the addition of brandy or alcohol, such as port, marsala, and sherry
Word History and Origins
Origin of fortified wine1
Example Sentences
It instructs the reader to fry egg-coated slices, mix these with raisins, sugar and fortified wine then place the mixture in a pie dish on top of apples.
Eggnog in general, and aged eggnog in particular, is a descendant of something called “sack posset “ or “posset,” a 17th-century, upper-class, custard-like, creamy English drink made with a fortified wine like Madeira or sherry.
If you are unfamiliar with Madeira, it is a fortified wine named after the Portuguese islands where it originated.
The biggest reductions were in the sales of cider, with increases in the sales of wine and fortified wine.
Port is a fortified wine produced in the Douro Valley in Portugal and comes in somewhat confusing varieties, including dry, semidry, white, rose, ruby and tawny.
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