List of Words Derived From Toponyms - Wine

Wine

  • Alsace
  • Asti — Asti (province), Italy
  • Beaujolais
  • Bordeaux
  • Burgundy
  • Chablis
  • Champagne, a sparkling wine named after the region of France in which it is produced.
  • Chardonnay
  • Gamay
  • Hock, indirectly from Hochheim in Germany
  • Madeira wine, a fortified wine and Plum in madeira, a dessert — Madeira islands of Portugal
  • Port wine (or Porto), sweet fortified wine — Porto, in northern Portugal
  • Rioja — La Rioja (region), Spain
  • Sherry wine, a mispronunciation of Jerez — Jerez de la Frontera, a city in southern Spain
  • Tokaji, white wine — a city in Hungary

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Famous quotes containing the word wine:

    “If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Mark 2:22.

    Jesus.