château wine

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noun

wine made at a vineyard estate in the Bordeaux region of France.

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Origin of château wine

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby château wine

château d'eau, Châteauguay, Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Châteauroux, Château-Thierry, château wine, chatelain, chatelaine, Chatham, Chatham Island, Chatham Islands

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How to use château wine in a sentence

I guess we know how Bacchus kept his title as the god of wine and intoxication.
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The possibilities seem endless: Who needs a trip to the liquor store when the toddler can turn water into wine, amirite?
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All Champagne is sparkling wine but not all sparkling wine is Champagne.
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“Enjoying the bubbles is as important as enjoying the wine,” Goldston says.
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The wine cellar—one of the best in the world—survived World War II and is guarded around the clock.
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HE ordered a lunch which he thought the girl would like, with wine to revive the faculties that he knew must be failing.
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And when wine had unselfed my noble father, you received his passionate insults with forbearance and forgiveness!
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Their Chateau en Espagne seemed invisible, as such chateaux usually are; and where it might be found, who was there to tell?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
Wharton left Vienna, the morning after his separation from Louis in the garden of the chateau.
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We are drawing near the chateau, and you might as well wear a cockade tricolor as let them hear that.
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British Dictionary definitions for château wine

chateau wine

noun

a wine produced from any of certain vineyards in the Bordeaux region of France

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