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‖ lagar, n. Wine-making.
(læˈgɑː(r), ‖ laˈgar)
Pl. lagares.
[Sp., f. L. lacus vat holding freshly pressed grape juice. Cf. lake n.4 4.]
In Spain and Portugal: a large (usu. stone) trough in which grapes are trodden.
1845tr. J. J. Forrester's Wine Trade of Portugal (ed. 2) 15 The system of pressing the grapes half by night and half by day..cannot fail to be injurious to the wine, by..rendering it necessary that it should remain a longer time in the ‘Lagar’ than would otherwise be required. 1880H. Vizetelly Facts about Port iii. 51 The casa dos lagares is a long building with a low pointed roof, lighted with square openings along one side, and contains four lagares, in the largest of which sufficient grapes can be trodden at one time to produce thirty pipes of wine. 1975P. V. Price Taste of Wine iii. 29/1 (caption) The grapes are previously dried on mats; in the old days they were trodden in wooden lagares and then pressed again in a sandwich device. Ibid. 29/4 (caption) The grapes used to be trodden in the lagar by barefoot workmen. 1987Sunday Express Mag. 4 Jan. 40/4 At least one family—the Newmans..—believe that the best port is produced by teams of men trampling down the grapes underfoot in what is known as a lagar. Great fun, the lagar. |