ginger wine

British  

noun

1. an alcoholic drink made from fermented bruised ginger, sugar, and water

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Example Sentences

Ginger wine may be made in precisely the same manner, only, with the 9-gallon cask for ginger wine, 2 lbs. of the best whole ginger, 'bruised', must be put with the sugar.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

The Scottish housekeeper, Mrs. Wallace, was also a devoted friend and a great dispenser of cakes, ices, and home-made cowslip and ginger wine.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh

For the children he concocted a marvellous mixture, which he called an “eye-composer,” the chief ingredients being hot lemonade, ginger wine, sugar, oranges, and raspberry vinegar. 

From Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

The butcher's wife gave us cake and ginger wine, and was very jolly.

From Oswald Bastable and Others by Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund)

He was shown into the blue-and-white room, and there, after business had been transacted, very nervously on Miss Ailie's part, she offered him his choice between ginger wine and what she falteringly called wh-wh-whiskey.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)