sweet wine
After-dinner drink
Sweet wine is wine with noticeable residual sugar, as opposed to dry wine where sugars have fully fermented into alcohol.
Sweetness ranges from off-dry to intensely sugary dessert wines like port, Sauternes, or ice wine.
She prefers sweet wine to dry reds.
The term sometimes carries connotations of unsophisticated taste among wine enthusiasts.
- SauternesFrench dessert wine appellation
- honeyedSweetened or flattering
- botrytisGrey mold genus
- noble rotDesirable grape fungus
- golden colorWarm yellow-orange tone
Moscato · Malaga · Pedro Ximénez · fruity · syrupy · dried fruit · raisining · caramelized · Sherry · late harvest · grape harvest · luscious · floral · oak barrel · nutty · grapes · fortification · aperitif
- winesmerlot, chardonnay, cabernet, pinot noir, syrah
- kosher winekiddush, four cups, kosher certification, kosher symbol, kosher label
- Spanish drinksRioja, sherry, sangria, cava, rosado
- wine sweetnessdry, semi-dry, off-dry, medium dry, bone dry
- Southern Drinksmint julep, bourbon, Sazerac, Cheerwine, chicory coffee
- Alsace wineRiesling, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc, grand cru