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
She once quoted to me Hubert de Montille, an influential vigneron in the Côte de Beaune, with whom she worked.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 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
“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
But, in excess, they are a source of considerable anxiety to the vigneron, in that they are the cause of much of the wine going wrong.
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
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
Back then, Burgundy was still dominated by big négociants, merchants who bought grapes or wine from vignerons and bottled and sold it under their own labels.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 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
Furthermore, French vignerons have been introduced at great expense to promote this object.
From The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Ernest Scott
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