fortified wine

English

Noun

fortified wine (countable and uncountable, plural fortified wines)

1. A wine to which additional ethanol (an alcohol) has been added, the most common additive being brandy (a spirit distilled from wine).

Synonyms

• liqueur wine (in Europe)

Hypernyms

• dessert wine
• wine

Hyponyms

• Marsala
• marsala
• Madeira
• madeira
• port
• Porto
• porto
• port wine
• sherry

Coordinate terms

• brandy
• brandywine
• distilled wine
• champagne
• cognac
• sparkling wine
• liqueur

Related terms

Related terms

• bum wine
• wino wine
• distilled wine
• liqueur wine
• sparkling wine

Translations

wine with distilled beverage added

• French: vin muté m
• Galician: viño xeneroso (gl) m
• German: verstärkter Wein m, Likörwein (de) m
• Italian: vino fortificato m
• Russian: креплёное вино́ n (krepljónoje vinó)
• Swedish: starkvin n
• Turkish: fortifiye şarap, güçlendirilmiş şarap