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  2. Sweetness of wine - Wikipedia

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    A Spanish sparkling Cava with its sweetness level (semi-seco) listed on the labelAmong the components influencing how sweet a wine will taste is residual sugar. It is usually measured in grams of sugar per litre of wine, often abbreviated to g/L or g/L. Residual sugar typically refers to the sugar remaining after fermentation stops, or is stopped, but it can also result from the addition of ...

  3. Winemaking - Wikipedia

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    Sweet wines or off-dry wines are made by arresting fermentation before all sugar has been converted into ethanol and allowing some residual sugar to remain. This can be done by chilling the wine and adding sulphur and other allowable additives to inhibit yeast activity, or sterile filtering the wine to remove all yeast and bacteria.

  4. Dessert wine - Wikipedia

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    Dessert wine. Vin de Paille, a straw wine from France. Dessert wines, sometimes called pudding wines in the United Kingdom, are sweet wines typically served with dessert. There is no simple definition of a dessert wine. In the UK, a dessert wine is considered to be any sweet wine drunk with a meal, as opposed to the white [1] fortified wines ...

  5. Yeast in winemaking - Wikipedia

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    The role of yeast in winemaking is the most important element that distinguishes wine from fruit juice. In the absence of oxygen, yeast converts the sugars of the fruit into alcohol and carbon dioxide through the process of fermentation. [1] The more sugars in the grapes, the higher the potential alcohol level of the wine if the yeast are ...

  6. Port wine - Wikipedia

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    Port wine (Portuguese: vinho do Porto, Portuguese: [ˈviɲu ðu ˈpoɾtu]; lit. 'wine of Porto '), or simply port, is a Portuguese fortified wine produced in the Douro Valley of northern Portugal. [1] It is typically a sweet red wine, often served with dessert, although it also comes in dry, semi-dry, and white varieties.

  7. Sauternes (wine) - Wikipedia

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    Sauternes (wine) A half bottle of Sauternes from Château d'Yquem. Sauternes (French pronunciation: [sotɛʁn]) is a French sweet wine from the region of the same name in the Graves section in Bordeaux. Sauternes wine is made from Sémillon, sauvignon blanc, and muscadelle grapes that have been affected by Botrytis cinerea, also known as noble rot.

  8. French wine - Wikipedia

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    All common styles of wine – red, rosé, white (dry, semi-sweet and sweet), sparkling and fortified – are produced in France. In most of these styles, the French production ranges from cheap and simple versions to some of the world's most famous and expensive examples. An exception is French fortified wines, which tend to be relatively ...

  9. Marsala wine - Wikipedia

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    Marsala wine. Marsala is a fortified wine, dry or sweet, produced in the region surrounding the Italian city of Marsala in Sicily. Marsala first received Denominazione di Origine Controllata (DOC) status in 1969. [1] The European Union grants Protected designation of origin (PDO) status to Marsala and most other countries limit the use of the ...

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