Dessert wines, sometimes called pudding wines, are sweet wines typically served with dessert. Makers of dessert wines want to produce a wine containing high levels of both sugar and alcohol. Since all winemaking creates alcohol from fermentation of sugars they are typically traded off. However, there are many ways to increase relative sugar levels in the final wine.
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