Dessert Wine

Dessert wines are sweet wines typically served with dessert, such as Sauternes. Despite the name, they are often best appreciated alone, or with fruit or bakery sweets. They are often high in alcohol strength. There is no simple definition of a dessert wine. A dessert wine is considered to be any sweet wine drunk with a meal, as opposed to the white fortified wine drunk before the meal, and the red fortified wines drunk after it. Thus most fortified wines are regarded as distinct from dessert wines, but some of the less strongfortified white wines, such as sherry and Muscat, are regarded as honorary dessert wines.