Dessert wine

As a dessert wine is called a most sweet, full-bodied wine that is served at the end of a meal with the dessert. The dessert wines include, for example, Muscat, Caluso raisin, Tokay, Malaga, Marsala and Samos wine.

Skip to dessert wines wines are expected, the grapes were frozen prior to crushing ( Eiswein ), undergone noble rot have ( predicate Beerenauslese, predicate Trockenbeerenauslese, Sauternes ) or were dried after harvest (straw wine such as Vin Santo ). This ensures a high must weight, so a high sugar content of must ( Oechsle degrees).

Characteristic of dessert wines is the residual sweetness. This arises from the fact that the yeast dies off due to the high alcohol content before all existing sugar is fermented into alcohol. Not to be confused with dessert wines, liqueur wines, which are blended with other alcoholic products or " gespritet " with alcohol.