Dessert wine
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Dessert wines, sometimes called pudding wines in the United Kingdom, are sweet wines typically served with dessert.
Vin de Paille, a straw wine from France
Château d'Yquem 1999. A dessert wine from Sauternes made by so-called "noble rot"
A late harvest Semillon from Washington State.
Port wine, a fortified wine
Straw wine
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Straw wine, or raisin wine, is a wine made from grapes that have been dried off the vine to concentrate their juice. Under the classic method, after a careful hand harvest, selected bunches of ripe gr
Dessert wine
…before all the sugar is fermented (fortification or 'mutage'). remove water to concentrate the sugar: In warm climates, by air drying the grapes to make raisin wine In frosty climates, by freezing out some of the water to make ice wine In damp temperate climates, by using a fungal infection, Botrytis cinerea, to…
Muscat grapes drying in the sun
Grapes sun-wilting on the plant
Grapes laid out to dry