high wine

noun

1. Distilling.,  Often high wines. a distillate containing a high percentage of alcohol.

Word History and Origins

Origin of high wine¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

The LGBT-owned winery makes California wine in small batches with little intervention for a high wine that’s ready to enjoy.

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As we ventured back to restaurants in fits and starts while variants surged and restrictions were lifted then reimposed, many of us recoiled from high wine markups.

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Less known were the high wine bills of James K. Polk, the 11th president; the rejuvenation of the White House cellar after Prohibition under Franklin D. Roosevelt; or Lyndon B. Johnson’s policy of serving only American wines at state functions, a custom that presidents, with the exception of Nixon, have stuck to ever since.

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As in his other places, Mr. Stulman has very high wine markups, about three times retail.

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Cannon did well on sugar, but nobody dissected the whiskey section which bored gimlet holes into the bottom of every barrel of high wine to let it out without paying a cent of tax.

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