table wines

[Innkeeper]

Believe the U.S. Government defines table wine as still (none bubbly) wine containing less than 14% alcohol. Sometimes some of your "bigger" table wines creep upwards from 14%, but so long as they don't have other fortifying spirits added to them as Port and Sherry do, they are still table wines. Other general types of wine besides table and fortified are sparkling and dessert wines. Dessert wines differ from table wines in that they have much more residual sugar in them, making them sweet to go with sweets. You are right in that table wines are meant to be brought to table, i.e. eaten with the main courses, but no law says you can't drink them any time you want, unless you are a minor.