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vigneron

American  
[veenyuh-rawn] / vinjəˈrɔ̃ /

noun

French.
vignerons plural
  1. a winemaker.


vigneron British  
/ viɲrɔ̃, ˈviːnjərɒn /

noun

  1. a person who grows grapes for winemaking

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

The culture and upbringing of the vigneron, the person who grows the grapes and makes the wine, shapes their perspective of wine.

From New York Times Feb. 24, 2022

Nicolas Ferrand, the proprietor of Domaine des Côtes Rousses, calls himself a paysan vigneron, a peasant farmer and winemaker.

From New York Times Jul. 8, 2021

Tuxedos and evening gowns were the images of Champagne, not the dirt-encrusted boots of the vigneron.

From New York Times Jul. 19, 2018

Constancy of type should be unremittingly aimed at by the vigneron.

From The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Muskett, Philip E.

Some vignerons, Philip complained, "left in ruin and devastation the good places where the said good wine might have grown" in order to "get the greatest quantity of the said bad wines."

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

Chave, a family that traces its work as vignerons back to 1481.

From New York Times Dec. 9, 2021

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 Muskett, Philip E.

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