winemaking wine making | the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine |
Hundred Years' War | the series of wars fought intermittently between France and England, - |
Seven Years' War | a war of England and Prussia against France and Austria (-), Britain and Prussia got the better of it |
Thirty Years' War | a series of conflicts (-) between Protestants and Catholics starting in Germany and spreading until France and Denmark and Sweden were opposing the Holy Roman Empire and Spain |
cellar wine cellar | storage space where wines are stored |
wine bar | a bar that serves only wine |
wine bottle | a bottle for holding wine |
wine bucket wine cooler | a bucket of ice used to chill a bottle of wine |
wine cask wine barrel | a barrel that holds wine |
winery wine maker | distillery where wine is made |
port-wine stain nevus flammeus | a flat birthmark varying from pink to purple |
wine wineolored wineoloured | a red as dark as red wine |
wine vinegar | vinegar made from wine |
wine sauce | white or veloute sauce with wine and stock variously seasoned with onions and herbs, for fish or meat |
marchand de vin mushroom wine sauce | brown sauce with mushrooms and red wine or Madeira |
wine vino | fermented juice (of grapes especially) |
red wine | wine having a red color derived from skins of darkolored grapes |
white wine | pale yellowish wine made from white grapes or red grapes with skins removed before fermentation |
blush wine pink wine rose rose wine | pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began |
altar wine sacramental wine | used in a communion service |
sparkling wine | effervescent wine |
Burgundy Burgundy wine | red table wine from the Burgundy region of France (or any similar wine made elsewhere) |
Canary wine | a sweet white wine from the Canary Islands |
Bordeaux Bordeaux wine | any of several red or white wines produced around Bordeaux, France or wines resembling them |
California wine | any of various wines produced in California |
dessert wine | still sweet wine often served with dessert or after a meal |
jug wine | inexpensive wine sold in large bottles or jugs |
Rhine wine Rhenish hock | any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage) |
Rhone wine | any of various wines from the Rhone River valley in France |
straw wine | sweet wine from grapes partially sun-dried on the vine or on straw mats |
table wine | wine containing not more than percent alcohol usually served with a meal |
generic generic wine | a wine that is a blend of several varieties of grapes with no one grape predominating, a wine that does not carry the name of any specific grape |
varietal varietal wine | a wine made principally from one grape and carrying the name of that grape |
fortified wine | wine to which alcohol (usually grape brandy) has been added |
port port wine | sweet darked dessert wine originally from Portugal |
mulled wine | wine heated with sugar and spices and often citrus fruit |
May wine | a punch made of Moselle and sugar and sparkling water or champagne flavored with sweet woodruff |
wine tasting | a gathering of people to taste and compare different wines |
wine lover | a connoisseur of fine wines, a grape nut |
sommelier wine waiter wine steward | a waiter who manages wine service in a hotel or restaurant |
vintner winemaker wine maker | someone who makes wine |
vintner wine merchant | someone who sells wine |
wine taster | a taster who evaluates the quality of wines |
makomako New Zealand wine berry wineberry Aristotelia serrata Aristotelia racemosa | graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine |
palmyra palmyra palm toddy palm wine palm lontar longar palm Borassus flabellifer | tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar, leaves used for thatching and weaving |
wine palm jaggery palm kitul kittul kitul tree toddy palm Caryota urens | fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula, sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago |
wine-maker's yeast Saccharomyces ellipsoides | used in making wine |
spirits of wine | rectified ethyl alcohol |
days years | the time during which someone's life continues, the monarch's last days, in his final years |
golden years | the time of life after retirement from active work |