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cuve

[ kyv ]

/ küv /

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noun, plural cuves

[kyv]. /küv/. French.

a wine vat.

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How to use cuve in a sentence

This process of marrying wine on a gigantic scale is technically known as making the cuve.
Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines|Henry Vizetelly
In making their cuve the firm commonly mix one part of old wine to three parts of new.
Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines|Henry Vizetelly
Fig. 135 shows us a superb vase, called Cuve ovale Ducereau.
Pottery and Porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876|Charles Wyllys Elliott
Usually the cuve will embrace 1600 hogsheads, or 80,000 gallons of wine, almost sufficient for half a million bottles.
A History of Champagne|Henry Vizetelly

Four years later their cuve amounted to over 50,000 bottles.
Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines|Henry Vizetelly