white wine
noun
wine having a yellowish to amber color derived from the light-colored grapes used in production, or from dark grapes whose skins, pulp, and seeds have been removed before fermentation.
white wines
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pluralof white wine.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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These spicy, sometimes dry, sometimes sweet, sometimes kind of soapy-tasting white wines are like a loud guest at the table, dominating the conversation, drowning out everything and everyone else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
It was vaguely surreal, coming from the chaotic rebel energy of the Sliwa party into a sterile ballroom with white linens and several open bars serving endless glasses of house red and white wines.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2025
Ledbetter remembers when everything was on wine’s side: There was the so-called Judgment of Paris in 1976 when French oenophiles, in blind tasting, chose Napa as tops for both red and white wines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
Tannin is a good guess, since white wines contain only tiny amounts, while red wines contain substantial amounts.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2024
The most dangerous adulteration of wine is by some preparations of lead, which possess the property of stopping the progress of acescence of wine, and also of rendering white wines, when muddy, transparent.
From A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy by Friedrich Christian Accum
