How to Use dessert wine in a Sentence

dessert wine

noun
Definition of dessert winenext
  • So is a page-long list of dessert wines, brandies, and Rare Wine Co. Madeiras.
    — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Sparkling wine will be poured as a welcome wine, and a dessert wine will be served as well.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The area also turns out other whites, reds, rosés, sparklers and dessert wines.
    — Michael Austin, chicagotribune.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • When cooled, peel away the leathery skin and enjoy them with a glass of sweet dessert wine or a cup of tea.
    — Star Tribune, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Sparkling, dry whites, semi-sweet whites, red, still rose, and dessert wines abound here.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Not even a moscato dessert wine to wash it down after the fries are just a memory?
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Again, the sweet dessert wine and the WhistlePig rye made delectable pairings.
    — Janice O'Leary, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Nothing says dessert pairing quite like bubbly, or, the French dessert wine, Sauterne.
    — Kristin Braswell, Essence, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Plain Cellars has a pleasant mix of reds, dessert wines and cider, and a knowledgeable and friendly to guide you through them.
    — latimes.com, 20 May 2018
  • Desserts, together with a list of dessert wines, are taken as seriously as the rest of the menu here.
    — Kate Washington, sacbee, 11 May 2018
  • Its sweetness holds up well with Banyuls, an intriguing dessert wine from the French slopes of the Catalan Pyrenees.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The six glasses—for sherry, white wine, red wine, dessert wine, water, and port—should form a perfect circle above the knives and spoon on the right side.
    — Rachel Stafler, Town & Country, 27 Sep. 2019
  • And for the grand finale, personal lemon curd tarts were paired with a house dessert wine for guests to enjoy while stargazing.
    — Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 25 July 2022
  • Not opening a dessert wine is virtuous, a sign of restraint.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The dessert wines are stable because the yeast has entirely gorged itself and can’t eat anything more.
    — Fortune, 21 July 2019
  • In total, the winery makes 17 wines, including five blends, two sparkling wines, and a late-harvest riesling dessert wine.
    — Dallas News, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Bunnagitkarn added Moscato, a dessert wine, to the sorbet for a touch more sweetness and to help bring out the tropical flavor.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2021
  • For the fourth release, an 18-year-old whiskey was transferred to Moscatel de Valencia casks that were used to age this sweet Spanish dessert wine.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Don’t overlook the stellar sparkling wines, as well as their late harvest Chardonnay — a sun soaked, languorous dessert wine and one of my favorites in the Valley.
    — Bryce Wiatrak, SFChronicle.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • It’s a rich, complex dessert wine, with concentrated flavors of fig and caramel, and notes of orange marmalade and spice.
    — Tina Danze, Dallas News, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The drink menu included six wines (a sparkling, a white, a rosé, two reds, and a dessert wine), four specialty cocktails (two of which could be made as mocktails), craft beers, and liquors.
    — Eric Rosen, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The result is a brain-bustlingly complex whiskey that has smoke from a bit of peated malt used in the creation of the whiskey and the many years spent in wood juxtaposed with the sweet fruit notes that come from the dessert wine.
    — Gina Pace, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Share a tray featuring three cheeses of the day or Portuguese egg tarts, and pair it with Kracher Beerenauslese, an Austrian dessert wine.
    — Robin Soslow, Chron, 2 Feb. 2023
  • This remarkable dessert wine is made in the style of a German trockenbeerenauslese (troch-en-bare-en-oush-lease), rare anywhere in the world.
    — Andy Perdue, The Seattle Times, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Txakoli is the crisp, zippy (mostly) white wine from the Basque region of Spain, while Tokaji is the legendary, nectar-like dessert wine from Hungary.
    — Michael Austin, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2018
  • My favorite is Château d’Yquem, Sauternes, a beautifully lush dessert wine from a stunning estate in France.
    — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2020
  • But to my eyes, the showiest element of the night was an enormous bottle of dessert wine that sommeliers began bringing around to tables later in the evening.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Each restaurant location serves an array of those house wines including red, white, rosé and dessert wine.
    — Tirion Morris, azcentral, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Most offer a choice of two reds and two whites on a business-class flight, plus one in-air Champagne, a pre-departure sparkling wine and often a port or other dessert wine.
    — Scott McCartney, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
  • That was followed with a glass of an even more elusive dessert wine: Buca delle Canne, from the natural wine producer La Stoppa.
    — Ray Isle, Travel + Leisure, 25 Dec. 2023

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