How To Use Wine In A Sentence

  • Wine lovers in the U.S. are increasingly describing their favorite vintage as molto buono, instead of très bon.
  • An empty plastic 2 litre bottle is tied to a rock, or bag of stones with strong twine or string.
  • Spinach, endive and romaine lettuce are great in salads; just dress with a little olive oil and red wine vinegar.
  • For all that, Grossman drinks more white wine than red, partly because he eats a lot of fish and vegetarian food.
  • The church was dedicated to St Anthony of Egypt, patron saint of swineherds and of charcoal burners, a trade carried out on the fell for many years in the past.
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  • And if from this conjunction a baby was born, the infernal rite was resumed, all around a little jar of wine, which they called the keg, and they became drunk and would cut the baby to pieces, and pour its blood into the goblet, and they threw babies on the fire, still alive, and they mixed the baby's ashes and his blood, and drank! The Name of the Rose
  • There are two main approaches: one is a synthetic plug the same shape as a cork that can be placed in the top of the bottle in the same way as a cork and removed with a corkscrew, so preserving the ritual of opening a bottle of wine.
  • For winemakers in the Rhone, 2002 was a disastrous year, with violent storms and huge rainfall during the harvest.
  •   The thundering lauwine — might be worshipped more; Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
  • Some random bluster and name-drop: "In 2005, we sponsored Rock the Vote, [garbled, something about wine], we got a chance to connect with President Obama then. "I want to see that invitation": D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#8, Oct. 1)
  • Even the normal Perigordine fare of duck la gras and truffles washed down with red wine and pastis has yielded in favour of Scottish food and drink in celebration of the Auld Alliance.
  • Take it with a glass of mulled wine and it'll keep you going until the spring. Times, Sunday Times
  • A kir is a mix of white wine and french blackberry liqueur. A love affair of shame to rival the poignancy of Brokeback Mountain, or The French Eat McDonald's
  • The students come to handicuffs over it; they spill the wine, and it turns into flame. The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'
  • It may be true of good wine, but it is certainly not true of a good sommelier.
  • They run out of beer by about 7pm so we then turned to the wine, which I'm afraid would have stripped the paint off any wall.
  • The best wine vinegar may be made from either white or red wine, the latter having an agreeable mellow taste.
  • This is a well-made wine that delivers sweet red and black fruits harmoniously integrated with ripe tannins and soft acidity.
  • Sémillon (also Muscadelle and Sauvignon Blanc) is the best grape for making botrytis-affected sweet wines.
  • It was strange, to buy a bottle of great wine for my guests and know I wouldn't drink a drop.
  • These are the books written by wine enthusiasts who write them just because they can write. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Each bottle rests in an independent sleeve from the others so it can also be separated and used again for your wine travel needs. 2010 February | Dr Vino's wine blog
  • The wine possesses a smoothness and balanced depth which is rare at such a low price.
  • Also be careful when buying fortified wines and ports as some can be unbearably sweet or acidic.
  • A table at the bottom compared the calorie content of 100 ml of beer with the same amount of gin, rum, whisky, cognac and wine.
  • Fresh, vivacious and lively, this wine has enormous energy and vitality.
  • Saxby Bridge has enthusiastically marketed all sorts of tax effective schemes involving things like tea trees, macadamias, wine and even online lingerie.
  • _ When a scirrhus affects any gland of no great extent or sensibility, it is, after a long period of time, liable to suppurate without inducing fever, like the indolent tumors of the conglobate or lymphatic glands above mentioned; whence collections of matter are often found after death both in men and other animals; as in the liver of swine, which have been fed with the grounds of fermented mixtures in the distilleries. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • My number one tipple over the holidays is mulled wine. The Sun
  • In their place you have to look at using low-joule cordials and soft drinks, plain mineral water and soda water, low fat milk and dry wines or spirits and even then limited to a maximum of two alcoholic drinks a day.
  • The place has its own state-of-the-art winery, its own cooperage to ensure flavour and complexity, its own chef to educate consumers on the perfect blend of food and wine. It's all part of a worldwide trend.
  • Tartaric acid is what gives balance to sugars in white wines and tannins in reds.
  • Today, pink wine sales are increasing in France and the United States, as well as in Britain.
  • Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. 
  • The first problem was finding something as enjoyable as wine to drink after a day at work. Times, Sunday Times
  • (His hairy chest was open to what poets call the 'wined', In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses
  • No, not representing the winery …. just thoroughly enjoy the wines from this boutique winery in Shelton, WA. Syrah: beyond the fruit bomb | Dr Vino's wine blog
  • As I understand, its the oxidization that is a problem, so if you did what they do with winesavers and the like -- replace oxygen in container with food grade nitrogen, you should slow the process down. The Coffee Geek’s Guide To Storing Beans | Lifehacker Australia
  • 'The first principles of commercial activity have retreated to earth's maziest penetralia, where no tides are! is it not so, Skepsey?' said Mr. Fenellan, whose initiative and exuberance in loquency had been restrained by a slight oppression, known to guests; especially to the guest in the earlier process of his magnification and illumination by virtue of a grand old wine; and also when the news he has to communicate may be a stir to unpleasant heaps. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • Wineries are also devising strategies, along with restaurateurs and retailers, to get more people to think about wine.
  • Sadly, because we found our wine so late, and things have been hectic with a sick 9-month old here at the LENNDEVOURS world headquarters there wasn't time for a full-fledge review, meaning that I didn't taste it blind or even pull my notebook out. Wine Blogging Wednesday
  • They're compelling red wines of pipe-organ depth and power without excessive alcohol or overripeness. Two Worlds of Argentine Wines
  • With very few exceptions, however, Cabernet Sauvignon was left to command California's highest wine prices, Merlot to swell sales volumes.
  • The capital of France boasts every regional specialty, cheese and wine the country has to offer.
  • For a squeamish diary writer it was enough to send me to the editor's well-stocked drinks cabinet for a nip of his favourite barley wine.
  • Always be sure to use either red or white wine vinegar rather than malt vinegar. Asthma and Eczema - special diet cookbook
  • On a warm day, heaven is a bottle of chilled wine, a plate of seafood, and a table with a view.
  • One who loves not wine, woman and song, remains a fool his whole life long. 
  • As a rule of thumb, the villages of Barolo and La Morra produce the most perfumed win es, while Monforte d 'Alba and Serralunga produce more structured, powerful wines that require substantial cellaring. In Search of Barolo
  • Add the tomato paste and white wine and whisk until the paste has dissolved. The Sun
  • In his parable of the new wine and new wineskins, Jesus told the people, ‘I am the new wine for which you are all thirsting.’
  • A whoosh of freshly ground mocha coffee hits the nose and then, once the wine hits your mouth, it's joined by black fruits, liquorice, spice and a spray of refreshing acidity.
  • We ordered moussaka and dolmas and ate them on a nearby street corner with some wine.
  • The touch of ice wine lends the drink the slightest honeyed, apricot sort of nose, but doesn't interfere with the brisk essence of the classic martini, which is, above all, dry.
  • This barrel can store 40 gallons of red wine.
  • To ease the week's woes, it's $2 off all draft beer and well spirits and $4 for a glass of house red or white wine.
  • The bottles are then capped and placed in the cool cellars of the winery for up to 2 years.
  • But, more likely, he has decided it is less of a PR risk to leave a journalist eating a solitary crab pasty in the drizzle than to be trapped alone with her and - God forbid - a tongue-loosening bottle of wine.
  • The former Manchester United star was pictured poolside last Tuesday after allegedly having downed a bottle of wine before lunch.
  • Bouchons were originally wine bars where the local silk workers or passing stagecoach drivers could fill up on a simple, hearty cuisine that was based on fresh local products -- mostly pig in the form of andouillette, fried crackling, tripes, petit salé -- and lots of the local wine among like-minded souls, enjoying their brief moment of freedom amid laughter and loud, boisterous behavior. Jamie Schler: A Side Trip to Lyons: Le Bouchon
  • And a bowl of juicy ripe fruit was placed on the table and a bottle of sparkling wine was chilling nicely in the silver cooler.
  • It's a bizarre concept that intertwines issues of patriotism and sporting chauvinism.
  • For the main course I had the ‘crisp confit of duck’ with puy lentils and smoked bacon ragout with a red wine sauce.
  • I marinated the meat in red wine and then slowly grilled and ate it, accompanied by a light green salad and a half bottle of Country Beaujolais.
  • Take time to shop around; get to know your local wine merchant or investigate your local supermarket.
  • A varietal is a wine made predominantly from one specific grape and is labeled as such, for example, California Merlot.
  • I contacted a wine merchant in London and told him I wanted to buy some that would be fit for drinking in ten years time.
  • Combine the reduced fumet, wine, pastis, and mussel liquid if using, in small heavy saucepan.
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  • It is entirely possible to drink any wine with any dish, and anyone who says otherwise is talking bunkum; a respected gastro-bore friend of mine likes to drink white burgundy with stewed lamb, as he finds it brings out the texture of the meat.
  • A talented winemaker whose drinking wine of the moment is Shiraz, Debbie has a clear idea about the wine that she likes to produce and the wine she likes to drink.
  • Some asthmatics also react to sulfites present in some foods and wines.
  • In our travels in Argentina, I've had the chance to visit Eva Peron's grave, fall in love with a local winery, and take a river cruise.
  • Wine by the glass business is strong, too, he reports, and the bar offers eight white wines and seven reds.
  • They will drink their wretched heartless stuff, such as they call claret, or wine of Medoc, or Bordeaux, or what not, with no more meaning than sour rennet, stirred with the pulp from the cider press, and strained through the cap of our Betty. Lorna Doone
  • Ramses handed the ornate gilded wine list back to the maître d '. LORD OF THE SILENT
  • Serves 2-4, depending on hunger4 raw, unshelled tiger prawns90ml olive oil3 cloves garlic, finely chopped500ml good-quality fish stock150g sustainable monkfish, cut into chunks1 onion, finely diced1 tsp smoked paprika200g chopped tomatoes50ml dry white winePinch of saffron soaked in 1 tbsp hot water200g Calasparra or other short-grain rice150g baby squid, cut into rings150g broad beans150g mussels, scrubbedHandful of flat-leaf parsley to garnish½ lemon, cut into wedges 1. Shell the prawns and put the flesh aside. How to cook the perfect paella
  • It is difficult to choose from the vast array of wines on offer.
  • It is the produce of a single wine harvest in a specific year. Times, Sunday Times
  • By selling wine in such large quantities, the company boosts its average spend per customer.
  • I identified the frightful ingredients masking the mixtures of tannin and powdered carbon with which the fish was embalmed; and I penetrated the disguise of the marinated meats, painted with sauces the colour of sewage; and I diagnosed the wine as being coloured with fuscin, perfumed with furfurol, and enforced with molasses and plaster. Là-bas
  • Many years ago, we enjoyed a wine called Muscadet from Daniel Gehrs Wines in California. Something Completely Different
  • Lunch was a feast of meat and vegetables, cheese, yoghurt and fruit, with unlimited wine.
  • If a wine smells off, chances are it won't taste right, either.
  • Their journeys intertwine and overlap, and during sequences in which they go their separate but parallel ways, director Gustad employs jarring cross-cutting to remind us of their journeys' thematic parallelisms.
  • (That last fact doesn't have anything to do with the Lost Pines, but it's the kind of kitschy "giant ball of twine" thing I adore, so I've included it anyway.) Joy Preble: Not Lost at All: Texas Pines, Debut Authors, and the World's Largest Gingerbread Man
  • Smith concurs when it comes to upping his inventory of salmon-coral and deep hued pink wines.
  • Obama is too intwined with Wright regardless of his denouncing of Wright's hateful rhetoric. Jeremiah Wright Steps Down From Obama Campaign
  • True to form, the finished 2003 wines delivered record-breaking levels of tannin, sugar and alcohol; many châteaux have made clarets weighing in at 15 per cent-plus alcohol, as in Australia and California.
  • The state makes almost a quarter of each year's wine production into brandy and the aniseed-flavoured spirit raki (like arak) which, drunk with water, is the Turks' favoured alcoholic drink.
  • Then we'll have a whole salmon in white wine served with green peas and new potatoes. Times, Sunday Times
  • The evening was one of the largest consumer tastings of South African wines ever to be held in the UK with over 450 attendees signed up.
  • But he said when he wanted to lose weight he switched from beer to wine and whisky. The Sun
  • The _saltarello_ enchants me; in this is really the Italian wine, the Italian sun. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II
  • The supermarket holds occasional wine-tasting sessions.
  • Some positive news surfaced yesterday: Mexican scientists said the contagiousness of the swine flu is no greater than that of the seasonal flu that circulates every year.
  • In no other situation is the contemplation of living and dying so intertwined with love and sex.
  • The kinds of wine and food served for a fine dining experience will depend on your budget.
  • Istria is planted with around 3,000 hectares of Malvazija, a white grape variety that, in the case of western Istria producer Roxanich, produces a white wine with a copper gold color, an unusual nose with notes of marzipan, a slight sherried character and a tangy minerality. Discovering Classic Croatia
  • It makes a strong, syrupy sweet wine that most wine lovers hate because that native American grape flavor, caused by a compound called methyl anthranilate, is so strong. Meathead Goldwyn: The Most Wonderful & Unusual Pie: Purple Passion Concord Grape Pie
  • This wine has a round mouthfeel but carries all this fruit and flowers on a firm backbone of acid.
  • At the May state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, prickly pear cactus showed up in vermeil wine coolers, and Dowling also tucked a few among the in the centerpieces of fuchsia roses and Cattleya orchids. White House florist shows Obamas' relaxed style
  • Their labels and names represent both villages and families, with generations of winemaking traditions.
  • Wine or brandy could be used as the base instead of ale. The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
  • And white wines are mulled almost as often as red.
  • The swine looked even more attractive than ever in a black open-necked polo shirt and black jeans.
  • This is a complex wine that will sparkle as an accompaniment to a tall glass of bone chillingly cold lemon sorbet with sprigs of mint.
  • As for the wine glasses, we live near dozens of restaurants, some world-class, which means their stemware is as thin as their wine lists are thick.
  • Sparkling wines can also be made in a variety of ways. Thorsons Organic Wine Guide
  • Kit brought her wine glass to her lips and took a sip.
  • For the broth, in a medium saucepan over medium heat, simmer the white wine for one minute.
  • The Alsace growers ferment their wines to complete dryness.
  • Generous host to a fault, Julie even sends Zoe and Nadia to the offie when I mention I'd like red wine which isn't on offer.
  • The joys of food and wine are there for everybody - and all you need to bring is your corkscrew and curiosity.
  • Heavy drinkers were those who had up to three pints of beer or six glasses of wine once a week. The Sun
  • He visited many speakeasies, “from mere drinking dens to palatially appointed private houses where you find whole families, including children, dining together with the utmost decorum, the elders taking wine.” CHASING the WHITE DOG
  • So he sleepeth and wotteth not whither she goeth, nor what she doeth; but we know that after giving him the drugged wine, she donneth her richest raiment and perfumeth herself and then she fareth out from him to be away till break of day; then she cometh to him, and burneth a pastile under his nose and he awaketh from his deathlike sleep. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Silently, too, they walked under the IC, past the entwined hearts, the graphic drawings, the amazing suggestions. FAMILY PICTURES
  • And if the pH is 2.8 or below (highly unlikely), the wine could be called Dry. Rants
  • I entwined my fingers with hers, experiencing relief and dissolved anxiety as I felt her squeeze back.
  • Roses or blush wines that border on the sweet side also pair well with informal food such as barbecue.
  • Also on offer to keep out the cold will be mulled wine and mince pies.
  • He had tasted it as a prisoner of war in Germany, and the wine, a thimbleful in a mustard jar, was underripe and short on the finish. Singing of France's Unsung Chenin Blanc
  • She caught students red-handed with their parts entwined frequently, and the rest of the student body talked about sex as if it was just as normal as attending a baseball game or playing video games. Daniel P. Malito: The Scarlet e-Letter
  • Back in the age of discovery, wine shipments often spoiled at sea and originally wines were fortified to stop them from going bad on voyage. The Sun
  • I took a tentative sip of my wine: a muddy Pinot Grigio from the reed-riddled fields of some reclaimed Italian marsh. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • Just as French people enjoy their wine, so the British enjoy their beer.
  • Moksh have a fine selection of wine and trained staff guide guests to appropriate selection of the right wine for the right food.
  • Abraham Granish, Winehouse's great-great grandfather, was a Russian immigrant described as a "hawker", selling goods door-to-door, who lived in the Spitalfields area of the capital. News24
  • Seems like the port wine stain removal is akin to tatoo removal. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Health Insurance Mandates
  • This wine is ideal with slices of cool turkey, dusted with a little sea salt and draped over a crisp lettuce bed on rye bread.
  • Albrecht said police believe it was goat semen, but Swine Genetics only deals in pig semen.
  • Minas knew everyone, having cadged dinners and so-called symposia out of most people who had a dining room or a courtyard that lay close to a good wine cellar. See Delphi and Die
  • What's causing international winemakers to seek alternate closures for their wines?
  • A cellar that’s as much a conversation piece as the wine it stores – 400 bottles of luxury cuvee wines are contained in a 3m x 6m cement block, extruded from the shop into the public space. Artisan Cellars by Asylum
  • Meade had not thought to warn her that a woman in her condition should not drink, for it never occurred to him that a decent woman would drink anything stronger than scuppernong wine.
  • The current swine influenza A, called H1N1, is a triple hybrid avian/pig/human virus, “definitely” of swine origin. Wonk Room » Flu Farms: Decreasing Factory Farming Could Help Avert the Next Swine Flu Epidemic
  • He bought scores of wine books, consulted winemakers, and with textbook in hand attempted to turn the Bauduc plonk into a memorable wine.
  • Friday night I had a massage, then a boy came over and we split a bottle of red wine on my back step.
  • The amethyst is a brilliant transparent stone of a purple colour resembling that of diluted wine and varying in shade from the violet purple to rose. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • Old Chicago execs decided not to push wine by the bottle, though bottles are available if customers seek it out.
  • Add the cognac and flame it, then add the wine and the sofrito. Times, Sunday Times
  • The wine will age, our anger with France will pass, and we'll buy that Burgundy in a few years.
  • I suppose the major reason I’m feeling so jaded is that the mystery has gone out of wine for me. Rants
  • This allows the complexities of the grape to shine through, a quality inherent in all great wines.
  • New levies were imposed on cigarettes, wine and beer.
  • We had a fantastic lasagna (cooked by Ben), garlic bread with cheese or without, a Caesar salad, and some wine.
  • She had crashed her car into a hedge after drinking two bottles of wine. Times, Sunday Times
  • Lunch was a feast of meat and vegetables, cheese, yoghurt and fruit, with unlimited wine.
  • The photos make it a great gift idea, while the information acts as a starter for readers with a new interest in wine.
  • ‘We will not wine and dine with murderers,’ said Biti, a 33-year-old lawyer who is the opposition's shadow foreign minister.
  • The vine twines round/up the pole.
  • However young, he had to be given the courtesies due a dragonrider, so over klah and some of Lady Gana's excellent wine cake, he told us that runnerbeasts also were dying of the plague, and needed to be inoculated. Artichoke
  • In the mirror we see the face; in wine, the heart. 
  • One must determine by such marks as these, when sweet, strong, and dark wine, hydromel, water and oxymel, should be given in acute diseases. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
  • First, the wines are tasted by all of Omni's food & beverage managers at their annual conference.
  • The meal comes to a leisurely close with wedges of custard-filled torta or purchased almond biscotti served with vin santo, a sweet golden dessert wine, or espresso.
  • If your wines perform well in this star-studded cast, their reputation is made. Times, Sunday Times
  • Matron allowed me to come too, for a while, to watch, pirouette around and drink a thimbleful of ginger wine.
  • Her ex-husband sounds like an absolute swine.
  • On the scale of media-freak-out irrationality, superbugs have more credibility than the Large Hadron Collider apocalypse, for example, but they're not even up there with swine flu.
  • Having thus escaped the danger, the Romans threw their sentinel down the rock; while on Manlius they conferred by vote a reward for his bravery, intended more for honour than advantage; for each man gave him a day's rations, which consisted of half a Roman pound of meal, and the fourth part of a Greek cotyle of wine. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
  • I meekly told her about the chewiness of the meat.
  • The problems of crime and unemployment are closely intertwined.
  • You may have been offered red Japanese wineberries (Rubus phoenicolasius) from someone's garden; they're sweet but not a patch on blackberries for flavour. Times, Sunday Times
  • Port, red wine and stout beer are the worst culprits. The Sun
  • Further exposure to oxygen converts the acetaldehyde to acetic acid, the acidic component of wine vinegar, the wine-maker's bête noire.
  • But the song longs for the old intoxication; he misses “drinking that sweet wine,” and the song had a gospelly buildup as he sang about getting “so high in the days gone by.” SXSW: Drinking Songs From Van Morrison - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
  • He often requires performers to play in unconventional ways or use unusual objects as instruments - in the band, players produce sounds from tuned wine glasses, tam-tams and maracas and use metal thimbles on their strings.
  • A celebrity, the Zu-Zu, the last coryphee whom Bertie had translated from a sphere of garret bread-and-cheese to a sphere of villa champagne and chicken (and who, of course, in proportion to the previous scarcity of her bread-and-cheese, grew immediately intolerant of any wine less than 90s the dozen), said the Cecil cared for nothing longer than a fortnight, unless it was his horse, Forest King. Under Two Flags
  • The inclusion of wine stymied him for a long time, though later he reviled himself for being so dim. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
  • It's that time of year when gimmicky wines with daft labels burst upon us in the supermarkets.
  • Alsace is becoming established as a reliable, perhaps even the most reliable, wine bar white available.
  • Clad in a rollneck and forever gently clasping a glass of red wine, Lucont represents all the jokes and illusions we have about the French taken to an exaggerated and absurd level. This week's new comedy
  • He used a mallet to crack open a case of wine in a ritual said to bring harmony and good fortune. The Sun
  • Private collectors often reminisce of the days they picked up six bottles of 1982 Le Pin at under €20 a bottle, back then not an inconsiderable amount to pay for a relatively unknown wine. The Remarkable Rise of Le Pin
  • Add the tomatoes, sultanas or raisins and white wine and simmer over a low heat for about 20 minutes. Times, Sunday Times
  • The region's benign climate, chalky terrain and spectacular summer light is a wine-maker's dream.
  • It meant participation in an expanding repertoire of domestic rituals made possible by creamware teacups and saucers, decanters, wine glasses, pickle plates, and forks of all sorts.
  • To begin to understand how any wine is made we must first look at the composition of the grape.
  • He also evened out dodgy quality by blending wines grown in differing microclimates within Champagne and across both hot and cold vintages.
  • Young, robust wines in the cellar often give me “red wine headache” where older, softer (pinot, etc.) wines with polymerized tannins have little effect. Wine, allergies, histamines and sulfites - reactions from an allergist | Dr Vino's wine blog
  • The more wine he drank the more obvious his adoration for her became.
  • An exotic Lebanese assemblage of Sauvignon and muscat, this crisp, complex wine has a nose of light apricot and white flowers.
  • He was particularly perturbed that he had no recollection of even seeing the wine, let alone tasting it.
  • The wine had left a permanent mark on the tablecloth.
  • In Germany, there is always the main staple of the country's beer and wine festivals, the wurst.
  • An award-winning wine cellar boasts over 400 vintage wines, from which they can choose a bottle for dinner.
  • Her blood has diluted and cooled itself to a crystalline, life-giving wine. A MEANS TO EVIL
  • The restaurant applied for a licence to sell wine.
  • To summary the recent advances on analytical detection for acrolein and the detections of acrolein in wine.
  • Over lunch, he liked a gin and tonic and some wine. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
  • They were well paid, as much as fourpence being given for a good cock-crower (in 'The Trial of Christ'), while the part of God was worth three and fourpence: no contemptible sums at a time when a quart of wine cost twopence and a goose threepence. The Growth of English Drama
  • Tickets are €3 each with a cheese and wine reception, door prize and a later raffle for valuable prizes.
  • A blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, this rich wine has good acidity and luscious raisin notes.
  • She had seen glances hot with wine and lust, claspings of hands, loosened cyclas, and more lascivious reclinings. The Lion's Brood
  • Welcome to Wine Country Yacht Charters, Napa County's most unpretentious place to relax and drink wine.
  • A little of the fortified wine from Andalucia goes a long way. Times, Sunday Times
  • The heritage orchard has a variety of different breeds of pears and the community uses the pears for wine, jams and all sorts of yummy things.
  • NASA said the word "ullage" comes from the French term "ouillage," used in winemaking to describe the space between wine and the top of a storage container. In this case, it refers to the space at the top of the first stage fuel tank and the need to push the fuel to the bottom of the tank. Latest News - UPI.com

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