winey
Americanadjective
adjective
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I think of it instead as mysterious, perfumed, winey, deep.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
I don't get the winey of flavor so much from it.
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
The explosive crunch of the coating is picked up by my neighbor while the chicken, draped in the winey, onion-sweetened flavors associated with coq au vin, directs the taste buds to tap dance.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2016
“It’s missing the whole winey texture. It’s a little too woody.”
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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 Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
The soft air was at its winiest best.
From Crooked Trails and Straight by Hutchison, D. C.
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 Richards, Julia Ward
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