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:

    “What a man calls his “conscience” is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.”
    —Helen Rowland (1875–1950)

    “Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
    Sermons and soda-water the day after.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
    In the belly of the grape,”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)