| 释义 |
‖ sur lie, adv. phr. and adj. phr.|syr li|
[Fr., = on the lee (see lee n.2 1).]
A. adv. = on the lees s.v. lee n.2 2 d; without having been racked off.
B. adj. Of wine, esp. Muscadet: bottled sur lie.
1966H. Johnson Wine iii. 103 Muscadet bottled in the March after the vintage is called, and often labelled, sur lie—on its lees. 1974Good Housek. Bk. Wine iii. 52 On a Muscadet label, the phrase sur lie means that it was bottled straight out of the cask, or in other words ‘off the lees’, without the wine being racked or filtered off the deposit in the cask. 1988Which? Aug. 371/2 ‘Sur lie’ Muscadet..is left in the same container as the sediment for at least three months until the wine is bottled. |