vigneron
Americannoun
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vignerons
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of vigneron
French, from vigne vine
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Wash it down with a flinty Marsanne wine from Âmevive, made by noted vigneron Alice Anderson, whose vineyard is located on a regenerative farm nearby.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022
Its modern incarnation was shepherded into existence by Jules Lafon, a respected Meursault vigneron who invited his neighbors to celebrate with a banquet lunch at his estate in 1923.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2020
Tuxedos and evening gowns were the images of Champagne, not the dirt-encrusted boots of the vigneron.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2018
“Winemaking seems a lot like cooking,” I said to Franck Michaud, the head vigneron, or winemaker, the day I assisted him in the cuverie.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2016
The manufacturer combined the professions of vigneron and doctor—in our time the only doctor for many miles around.
From Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge
Because Philip issued the ordinance at the end of July, vignerons would have to cut down their own harvest just as the grapes were beginning to ripen.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2024
They conjure images of peasant vignerons of yore carefully hand-dipping bottles in molten wax, creating a seal that protects the cork from the ravages of time and rodents in the cellar.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2022
These consumers turned their attention instead to Burgundy, a region seemingly made up of vignerons, farmers who grew the grapes and made the wine.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
A Long Finish focuses on a grudge between two families of vignerons in Piedmont, and it includes great descriptions of the uncompromising wines of Barbaresco.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 26, 2018
It behoves our vignerons, therefore, to concentrate their energies mainly upon that vastly important period which follows onwards from the very beginning of vinification.
From The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Philip E. Muskett
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