They are intense, but unlike many of the high-alcohol wines they can be balanced and graceful as well.

Australia has had many high-alcohol wines, and in hot years, like 2003 in France, some producers may achieve elevated alcohol levels.

Ridge has long been a proponent of ripe, powerful, high-alcohol wines, a style widely adopted in California in recent years.

I really don't think consumers want to have nothing but high-alcohol wines that taste sweet and are questionable partners for food.

A hot, dry summer can produce a heavy, high-alcohol wine.

By choosing a skinnier than average woman and defining each "drink" as 6 ounces of high-alcohol wine, they make it sound easy to hit 0.08.

Fruit driven, high-alcohol red wines, like zinfandels and Shirazes, are often cited as good partners for chocolate.

Some of their overblown, high-alcohol wines supported their claim.

(Such mixing is still commonplace where hot climates produce high-alcohol wines.)