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dessert wine en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

Forms

Relateds

wine from unpressed grapes · straw wine · Ausbruch

Translations (8)

ru десе́ртное вино́ (sweet wine) · sv dessertvin (sweet wine) · nl dessertwijn (sweet wine) · fi jälkiruokaviini (sweet wine) · pl wino deserowe (sweet wine) · hu csemegebor (sweet wine) · ca vi dolç (sweet wine) · mk де́сертно ви́но (sweet wine)