Marsala cellars are famous not just for the production of dessert wine, but also for red and white wines.
There is no simple definition of a dessert wine.
A variation can be made by deep-frying a sweet version of the rings and serving them with a sweet dessert wine.
Tawny ports are sweet or medium dry and typically consumed as a dessert wine.
It is a sweet dessert wine made by individually picking botrytised grapes and trampling them in huge vats to form a paste.
The light, honeyed dessert wine that it can produce is often in high demand because of restricted supply.
While it can vary in the maximum amount, the alcohol level needed to be certified as a true dessert wine must be at least 15%.
Partial prohibition had been effective since 1917, and following a 1919 referendum, spirits and dessert wine had also been banned.
