wine

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  Invitation to drink wine
• WordNet 3.6
  • v wine treat to wine "Our relatives in Italy wined and dined us for a week"
  • v wine drink wine
  • n wine a red as dark as red wine
  • n wine fermented juice (of grapes especially)
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Glass wine bottles unearthed at Jamestown ranging in date from 1640 to 1690. Thousands of fragments of these bottles...

An assortment of glass bottle seals in the Jamestown collection. Some of the wealthy planters had their initials (or...

One of the Girls Brought Him Wine--1-07-018

Wolsey is served food and wine while minstrels play

WINE JAR—"TINAJA." SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM

ENID FETCHED THE WINE AND THE MEAT AND THE CAKES

• Interesting fact: One ton of grapes can produce 720 bottles of wine
• • Wine A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.
  • Wine The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication. "Noah awoke from his wine ."
  • Wine The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment. "Red wine of Gascoigne.""Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.""Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
    Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine ."
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• Interesting fact: Coffee was first known in Europe as Arabian Wine.
• • wine The fermented juice of the grape or fruit of the vine, Vitis. See Vitis. Wines are distinguished practically by their color, their hardness or softness on the palate, their flavor, and their being still or effervescing. The differences in the quality of wines depend upon differences in the varieties of vine, and quite as much on the differences of the soils in which the vines are planted, in the exposure of the vineyards, in the treatment of the grapes, and in the mode of manufacturing the wines. When the grapes are just fully ripe, the wine is generally most perfect as regards strength and flavor. The leading character of wine, however, must be referred to the alcohol which it contains, and upon which its intoxicating powers principally depend. The amount of alcohol in the stronger ports and sherries as found in the market is from 16 to 25 per cent.; in hock, claret, and other light wines, from 7 per cent. Wine containing more than 13 per cent. of alcohol may be assumed to be fortified with brandy or other spirit. Among the most celebrated ancient wines were those of Lesbos and Chios of the Greeks, and the Falernian and Cecuban of the Romans. Among the principal modern wines are port, sherry, Bordeaux, Burgundy, champagne, Madeira, Rhine, Moselle, Tokay, and Marsala. The principal wine-producing countries are France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Greece, Cape Colony, Australia, and the United States.
  • wine The juice, fermented or unfermented, of certain fruits or plants, prepared in imitation of wine obtained from grapes: as, gooseberry wine; raspberry wine.
  • wine Figuratively, intoxication produced by the use of wine.
  • wine A wine-drinking; a meal or feast of which wine is an important feature; specifically, a wine-party at one of the English universities.
  • wine In pharmacy, a solution of a medicinal substance in wine: as, wine of coca; wine of colchicum.
  • wine Same as wine-glass: a trade-term.
  • wine Especially— In the British islands, during the eighteenth century and until about 1850, almost exclusively Madeira and sherry.
  • wine More recently in the British islands, and generally in the United States, the much lighter-colored wines of France, as Chablis and Sauterne, and the wines of Germany.
  • wine To fill, supply, or entertain with wine.
  • wine To drink wine.
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• Interesting fact: Europeans drink more wine than Americans. France and Italy produce over 40% of all wine consumed in the world.
• • n Wine wīn the fermented juice of the grape: a liquor made from other fruits:
  • n Wine wīn (fig.) intoxication: a wine-drinking, a wine-party
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• Francis Bacon

  

  “Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
• Henry Fielding

  

  “Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.”
• Thomas Fuller

  

  “Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.”
• Italian Proverb

  

  “Old wine and friends improve with age.”
• Robert Louis Stevenson

  

  “Wine is bottled poetry.”
• John Milton

  

  “Lords are lordliest in their wine.”

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