dessert wine

English

Etymology

The standard of identity is from the Code of Federal Regulations, title 27, section 4.21(a)(3).

Noun

dessert wine (countable and uncountable, plural dessert wines)

1. Any of many relatively sweet wines, traditionally drunk at the end of a meal.
2. (US standards of identity) Grape wine with an alcohol content of more than fourteen, but at most twenty-four, percent, by volume.

Translations

sweet wine

• Catalan: vi dolç m
• Dutch: dessertwijn (nl) m
• Finnish: jälkiruokaviini (fi)
• Hungarian: csemegebor (hu)
• Macedonian: де́сертно ви́но n (désertno víno)
• Russian: десе́ртное вино́ (ru) n (desértnoje vinó)
• Swedish: dessertvin n

See also

• wine from unpressed grapes
• Ausbruch
• straw wine

Anagrams

• westernised