winey
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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I think of it instead as mysterious, perfumed, winey, deep.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2022
A couple people remarked that it was "winey," while someone else tasted "hops."
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2022
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
Her slightly chunky fruit filling has winey overtones and is not made with meat, but she does incorporate beef suet in the pastry of these individual lattice-top tartlets.
From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2015
“It’s missing the whole winey texture. It’s a little too woody.”
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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