Port - Sherry - Vermouth

PSV, or Port, Sherry and Vermouth are fortified wines. Fortified wine is wine with alcohol often distilled from the same wine is enhanced. Back in the days they already knew that a higher percentage of alcohol would improve shelf life and also wine survived good by transport over long distances, for example by ship. Strengthening wine is used in many countries. Rates of alcohol in these wines are above 15% but they are not always sweet.

Before the Second World War, people drank wine like is as this morning wine, now it is often seen as sweet wines to accompany a dessert or after dinner. Dry versions are also drunk as an aperitif.