Definition of dessert wine
: a usually sweet wine typically served with dessert or afterward
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That meant the right glasses, salad plates, dinner plates, and dessert plates and all the proper silverware for the meal, from salad forks to soups spoons to corn cob holders to oyster plates and glasses for dessert wine.
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Traditional-method sparkling wines are also being produced, as are rosés and dessert wines.
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As in the original, the orchestra (fluidly led, as usual, by Rob Berman) is visibly perched above the action, pouring out weltschmerz-laden melodies that flow like a thick, high-proof dessert wine.
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Friday is dedicated to Chocolate Decadence (which includes more than 30 still, sparkling and dessert wines) and Saturday is the Pechanga Wine Festival (where spirits, food and dessert samplings will also be served).
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With exotic tastes from Hungarian dessert wines, grape spirits from Bolivia, Armagnac and a host of assorted aperitifs and other surprises, buying a cocktail here can feel like buying passage to another land.
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The area also turns out other whites, reds, rosés, sparklers and dessert wines.
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Not even a moscato dessert wine to wash it down after the fries are just a memory?
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What better way to celebrate than a flaming omelette Norvégienne (like baked Alaska) and a glass of rich Sémillon dessert wine?
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First Known Use of dessert wine
1773
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Definition of dessert wine for English Language Learners
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: a sweet wine that people drink with dessert or after dessert
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