dessert wine

American  

noun

1. a sweet wine served with dessert or sometimes after a meal.

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Etymology

Origin of dessert wine

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

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

Not opening a dessert wine is virtuous, a sign of restraint.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2021

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

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