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:

    “Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.”
    —Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 9:17.

    “Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    “If you have wine today, get drunk today; worry about tomorrow’s worries tomorrow.”
    —Chinese proverb.