straw wine

noun

: a sweet wine produced by partially drying the grapes on beds of straw prior to vinification

Examples of straw wine in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Robinson also produces a straw wine — a dessert wine where the grapes, in this case Zinfandel, are dried on straw mats post-harvest to concentrate sugars. —

Bryce Wiatrak, SFChronicle.com, 21 Feb. 2018

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