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

In Tanga Herr Speiser prepared a huge banquet for the officers of the Karlsruhe, invited all Tanga's remaining German colonists, piled the long table with a little forest of slender Rhine wine bottles.

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U.S. citizens will have their chance at mead; plain, it tastes like a Rhine wine but has more sting.

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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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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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When they came into the wine-shop there was nobody there but one single customer, sitting by himself at a table, with a big glass of Rhine wine before him.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm