cuve

[ kyv ]

noun

, French.

, plural cuves [k, y, v].

1. a wine vat.

Example Sentences

This process of marrying wine on a gigantic scale is technically known as making the cuve.

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In making their cuve the firm commonly mix one part of old wine to three parts of new.

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Fig. 135 shows us a superb vase, called Cuve ovale Ducereau.

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Usually the cuve will embrace 1600 hogsheads, or 80,000 gallons of wine, almost sufficient for half a million bottles.

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Four years later their cuve amounted to over 50,000 bottles.

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