dessert wine

noun

: a usually sweet wine typically served with dessert or afterward

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Choose Sauternes for golden dessert wines, Arcachon Bay for oysters, and Saint-Émilion’s limestone catacombs. Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025 There's also a nice selection of amari and dessert wines. Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025 Emily Chen, sommelier at La Compagnie Wine Bar in New York’s Flatiron neighborhood, suggests a dessert-style vessel such as Ravenscroft Crystal Scotch snifter for fortified or dessert wines like Port, Sauternes, or Tokaji. Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 10 June 2025 For pecan pie, a dessert wine like Tawny Port does that with style. Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for dessert wine

Word History

First Known Use

1773, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of dessert wine was in 1773

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“Dessert wine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dessert%20wine. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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