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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