What is the difference in dessert wine and other wines?

we have taylor port wine (or something like that) in our fridge, and it says its dessert wine.


whats the difference in, uh not dessert wine, and that.


is it harder to catch a buzz off of or something?|||Desert wines are sweet. What you have is a "fortified" desert wine, which means that brandy was added to stop fermentation before all of the sugar was converted to alcohol. Fortified wines are usually 20% alcohol or 40 proof.


Other desert wines can be anywhere from 6.5% up to about 14%. There is no brandy added and the grapes that were used were extremely high in sugar. One of the most famous is Chateau d'Yquem. This is a Sauternes wine from France and is expensive.


Some German wines are extremely good as well such as the Trockenbeerenauslese made from the Riesling grape which is also expensive.


Eiswein is a wine made from grapes that are frozen then pressed to extract the concentrated juice.





Regular table wines range in alcohol from 6.5% to 14% and are fermented dry (no residual sugar) to semi-dry that has a little sugar left. They are best with meals or snacks. They are normally white, rose', or red. The difference comes from the way the wine is produced and the grape it's made from.





Champagne or sparkling wine is a different animal that has an additional step of retaining the CO2 in the wine that's produced during fermentation and results in a wine that bubbles like a soda. These wines are refreshing and can be drank by themselves or with food.|||port wines are strong in alcohol. there really isn't much difference. dessert wines might have less alcohol. they are however both really sweet.|||Dessert wines are much sweeter than regular wine. I am not sure about the alcohol content compared to regular wine.|||Know its a smaller amount sweeter and some ppl drink while their eating that kind of thing but other just drink wine as a social achohol not to get drunk unless u area wino|||They are usually a sweeter wine. The buzz depends on alcohol content, how much is consumed and how easily someone reacts.





The Muse|||Dessert wines are typically much sweeter than regular wines, although not always. And sometimes their alcohol content is higher even than regular wines.