How to Use fortified wine in a Sentence

fortified wine

noun

• This 5 year old whisky from the Cotswolds distillery was matured in a single ex-Madeira fortified wine cask.
  — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• Eat the cake while sipping on a fortified wine like sherry or Madeira — something that can put up a fight against the its big dairy flavor.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 30 July 2020
• Pineau des Charentes is a specific style of fortified wine from the Charentes region of France.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 26 July 2022
• The classic 50/50 martini recipe is made with equal parts spirit and fortified wine.
  — Popular Science, 29 May 2020
• Madeira is another fortified wine, from the Portuguese island of that name.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
• The Brits turned to Portugal, which had developed a fortified wine grown only along the Douro’s steep hillsides.
  — Fox News, 2 Aug. 2022
• The Signature expression is finished in ex-fortified wine barrels and bottled at 46 percent ABV, with notes of orchard fruit, black cherry and cocoa on the palate.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2022
• Madiera, the Portuguese fortified wine, is also spectacular with the nutty, spiced, and caramel flavors that are so common in Thanksgiving desserts.
  — Kristin Tice Studeman, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2018
• Consider pairing a raw fruit shrub with a botanical gin or muddled raw fruit with a lighter fortified wine like Manzanilla sherry.
  — Mackenzie Fegan, Bon Appétit, 4 Sep. 2020
• This specific release hails from Glendullan, and consists of whiskies that were reracked into two ex-Madeira fortified wine barriques for 14 years before bottling.
  — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
• While contents of a trifle can vary, the layered dessert is traditionally made with sponge fingers soaked in sherry or another fortified wine.
  — Amy Perrette, NBC News, 31 May 2022
• Port dominated the fortified wine category with eight of the nineteen Gold medalists.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• The plan is to turn the fruit into Angelica, a historic style of sweet, fortified wine that was popular during the early years of California’s Franciscan Missions.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 15 Oct. 2020
• To preserve the integrity of this wood that fosters all the color and the flavors, the wood is allowed to air-dry naturally for one year before being shipped to Jerez, the Spanish region famous for producing sherry, a fortified wine.
  — Rachel King, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2022
• This city and region are also known for Vernaccia di Oristano—the name of a white Sardinian grape used to make a fortified wine produced in an oxidized style—with air kept in barrels during fermentation.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 24 July 2022
• Vermouth, simply put, is an aromatized, fortified wine — higher in alcohol than most wines, but lower than most spirits.
  — Lisa Futterman, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Woodinville Whiskey became first to give a bourbon a secondary maturation in casks previously filled with the sweet, fortified wine from Portugal called Moscatel de Sebutal.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2022
• Much like how a sea voyage turns plain old fortified wine into Madeira, flying deepens and melds the muffuletta’s flavors, turning a superior sandwich into a phenomenon.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 10 June 2022
• The nomenclature can get confusing: Most of the products on this list are technically vermouth, a type of aromatized and fortified wine, though there are some other categories of liqueurs represented too (including one that’s made from rose petals).
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024