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

Two years ago Prosecco winemakers and local officials in Italy rose up after the European Union agreed to consider an application by Croatia to recognize a method of making a dessert wine called Prosek.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023

A forgotten barrel of 2013 tannat became the base for Bone Orchard, a fortified, port-style dessert wine with a metal label and a rather macabre representation of the gate at the winery entrance.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2022

Prosecco defenders say the name Prosek has never been uniformly applied and came to mean even a generic form of dessert wine.

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