fortified wine
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- noun
- /ˈfɔrtɪfaɪd waɪn/
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vino fortificado
- The cake is great with tea, but do try a slice with a little sweet or fortified wine if the mood takes you—that's why it's called Madeira cake, after all.
- fortified wine such as sherry
- bottle of fortified wine
- sweet fortified wine
Examples
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Atop the counter stood three bottles of fortified wine.
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An assumption is made here that the "drink" before dinner is most often spirits, but it might have been some fortified wine, like sherry.
Academic text (1998) -
This type of alcohol is used to make fortified wines such as sherry and port, as well as brandy.
Academic text (2003) -
Atop the counter stood three bottles of fortified wine.
Fiction book (1995) -
They had bought some beer, several cases, and some Big Red, fortified wine, and then they had gone off somewhere in the desert, off the reservation rather than on it, to drink it in peace.
Fiction book (2000) -
The traditional TLFB collects the number of self-reported standard drinks consumed on each day in a specified time period within four beverage categories (beer, wine, fortified wine, and hard liquor).
Academic text (2016) -
Most of that was sweet, fortified wine, made for use in churches and synagogues.
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An empty bottle of Wild Irish Rose, a fortified wine, had been left on the stoop, a throwback to the old days.
Synonyms
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An alcoholic drink made from the fermented juice of grapes or other fruits
Antonyms
How Alcoholic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a wine to which spirits have been added' is directly and compositionally derived from 'fortify' (to add spirits/increase alcohol) plus 'wine' — the adjective 'fortified' transparently describes the treatment of the wine. This is a common, cross-linguistic pattern (e.g., Spanish 'vino fortificado'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Fortified wine comes from the old practice of 'fortifying' wine by adding a strong drink such as brandy to make it stronger and help it last longer. The word fortified means made stronger, so fortified wine is 'wine with extra alcohol' or 'a wine to which a spirit has been added'.