winey
Americanadjective
adjective
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A couple people remarked that it was "winey," while someone else tasted "hops."
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2022
Lucinda’s version has purple barley, but they felt like a forced addition to the nice winey broth, oddly akin to soup-meets-bubble-tea.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
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
Scallop boudin blanc is a seafood sausage with the lightness of mousse and a twinkle from trout roe, an attraction improbably and lusciously served on a backdrop of julienned snow peas and winey sauerkraut.
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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