- a variation of winy.
winey
Americanadjective
adjective
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I think of it instead as mysterious, perfumed, winey, deep.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
People describe it as a sort of winey flavor.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2020
We confuse him with the truly engagé Enlightenment and Romantic writers who came long afterward, as they came to confuse his briny Bordeaux with their winey one.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017
Made from wild yeast culture shipped from Italy bucking and snorting, it yields a springy, invigorating crust, with flavors galloping from its winey, nutty golden puffed edges to its chocolaty, espresso-bitter char.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2011
Even now, Theon could recall the winey stench of the old man's breath.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Good grades of Harari have cup characteristics resembling Mocha, and by some are preferred to Mocha, because of their winier cup flavor.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
The soft air was at its winiest best.
From Crooked Trails and Straight by D. C. Hutchison
Well, but what I meant to say is, the only weeniest speck of a fault I ever had to find with the Snowy—darling thing!—was that she was a little bit—just the tiniest winiest scrap—too serious.
From The Merryweathers by Julia Ward Richards
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