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

Example Sentences

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Rhine wine

What if President von Hindenburg sent 500 bottles of fine Rhine wine?

From Time Magazine Archive

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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We were now in the famous Rhine wine country.

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Last week in a comfortable Oberaudorf apartment, Baron Magnus von Braun, tanned and vigorous, celebrated his 80th birthday, marked by a four-page letter from Wernher and a gift of twelve bottles of Rhine wine.

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After-reflection convinced me that nothing less than a criminal mistake in the mixing of my Rhine wine and seltzer was responsible for my reply.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various