Dessert Wine

/dih-ZURT wine/
🍷Winemaking👃Tasting

Sweet wine typically served with or as dessert.

Full Definition

Dessert wines are sweet wines with high residual sugar, served with or as dessert. Production methods include late harvest, botrytis infection, drying grapes (passito), fortification, or freezing (ice wine). Famous examples include Sauternes, Tokaji, Vin Santo, and Port. Sugar levels range from moderately sweet to intensely sweet.

Related Terms

late harvestbotrytisfortified

See Also

residual sugarsauternesport
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More terms starting with D

Decanting

Pouring wine into another vessel for aeration or sediment removal.

Delestage

Rack-and-return technique for gentle extraction.

Demi-Sec

Medium-sweet sparkling wine.

Density

In tasting, the concentration of a wine; in viticulture, vine spacing.

Depth

Layers of flavor that reveal themselves over time.

Disgorgement

Removing sediment from sparkling wine after secondary fermentation.