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 Fortified
Wines are wines that have been fortified with brandy and sometimes flavored with herbs, roots, peels, and spices. The most popular examples are sherry, Madeira, Marsala, port, and vermouth. Fortified wines are often used in cooking, or they're served as apéritifs or dessert
wines. The most famous is Lillet (L'Aperitif Bordeaux),
a French aperitif wine.
Madeira
Fortified wine from the Portuguese island of Madeira in
the Atlantic. This durable wine was very popular in colonial America. Click
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Marsala
A
sweet wine from Cape Boeo, W Sicily, Italy, a port on the Mediterranean Sea. It takes its name from the town that produces it, Marsala.
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Port
A sweet, fortified, usually red wine of considerable renown from the Douro region of northern Portugal, named for the town of Oporto where it is aged and bottled; also, any of several similar fortified wines produced elsewhere.
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Sherry
The term sherry originally referred to wines made from grapes grown in the region of Jérez de la Frontera, Andalusia, Spain; today it may refer to any of the fortified wines from
Spain and is also applied to similar wines produced in the United States, Latin America, and South Africa.
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Vermouth
Wine-based
fortified drink flavored with aromatic herbs. The name derives from the German
"Vermut" or "Wormwood", a bitter herb and traditional
ingredient of vermouth and absinthe. Click
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