A name originally given (like French vin clairet) to wines of yellowish or light red colour, as… absol. (The earlier quots. are uncertain.)

The wine made in the Bordeaux region of France; claret.

In full Château Haut-Brion. A variety of fine quality claret.

Applied to claret; also absol. as n. Obsolete.

A red Bordeaux wine of the Haut-Médoc produced in Margaux, esp. that produced at Château Margaux (more fully Château Margaux).

Used as the designation of the claret produced and bottled at Château Lafite, in the Médoc district of the Gironde, France.

claret, so called from the length of the corks used for such wine.

Red wine produced in Médoc; (as a count noun) a wine produced in this region.

‘The universal name for claret in India’ (Yule).

claret made in a year in which a notable comet appeared, and therefore thought to be of superior quality.

A red Bordeaux wine from the Haut-Médoc district of France.

A red Bordeaux wine of the Haut-Médoc, produced by the Château Mouton estate; (now) esp. Mouton Rothschild.

Also with capital initial. A wine produced from grapes grown on alluvial land adjacent to the rivers of the Bordeaux wine region in France. Chiefly…

the name applied to various wines produced in the region of St. Emilion, Gironde, in south-west France.

A type of claret; the vineyard or area itself.

Claret produced in Pauillac, France; a claret produced in this region.

A red Bordeaux wine produced by the Château Pontet-Canet estate in the Haut-Médoc.

A red wine produced in the region of Pomerol in south-western France.

A red wine from any of three vineyards in the commune of Saint-Julien, district of Haut-Médoc, department of Gironde, France.

A red Bordeaux wine of the Haut-Médoc, produced in the Château Mouton-Rothschild. Also more fully Château Mouton-Rothschild. Cf. Mouton, n.2