Rhine wine

American  

noun

1. any of numerous varieties of wine produced in the Rhine valley.

2. any of a class of white wines, mostly light, still, and dry.

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Rhine wine British  

noun

1. any of several wines produced along the banks of the Rhine, characteristically a white table wine such as Riesling

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Etymology

Origin of Rhine wine

First recorded in 1835–45

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Rhine wine

Owner Alzen's family have been restaurateurs for 176 years; her father bought Maternus in'1908, when it was merely a "wine cafe" serving Rhine wine and cold dishes.

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Under him, the Chicago Symphony developed a bouquet all its own: subtler than that of the hard-driven Eastern symphonies, it was more akin to the Rhine wine that he loved so well.

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Over glasses of Rhine wine and bock beer they talk about the old days at Grossmama's.

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San Franciscans have marveled at the Rhine wine savor of his Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann, as well as the elegance of his Debussy and Ravel.

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At those meetings, the Minister for Foreign Affairs would give notice of the arrival of some remarkably superior Rhine wine at some merchant's in the town.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm