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dessert wine

dessert wine noun: any of many relatively sweet wines, traditionally drunk at the end of a meal.

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.

Forms of dessert wine

pluraldessert wines

Origin of dessert wine

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

Questions about dessert wine

What does dessert wine mean?
Dessert wine means any of many relatively sweet wines, traditionally drunk at the end of a meal.
What part of speech is dessert wine?
Dessert wine is a noun.
What is the plural of dessert wine?
The plural of dessert wine is dessert wines.

Words near dessert wine in the dictionary

  1. dessert grapes
  2. dessert spoon
  3. dessert spoons
  4. dessert stomach
  5. dessert stomachs
  6. dessert wine
  7. dessert wines
  8. dessert-plate
  9. dessertful
  10. dessertfuls
  11. dessertless

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