Any of several, probably often sweet, Portuguese wines from the Lisbon area, but frequently associated with the Auxois and Alsace areas of France.

In full Rochelle wine. Wine, esp. white wine, produced in the Poitou region of western France and exported from the port of La Rochelle. Chiefly histo…

Wine produced in Gascony. Now historical and rare.

(See quot. 1706.)

More fully Orleans wine. Wine made near Orléans in France. Now rare.

wine produced at Cognac.

A muscat wine made at Frontignan, in the department of Hérault, France.

Also Languedoc wine. A wine produced in Languedoc in the south of France, either with reference to the former province, or to the modern region…

In early use: a type of French red wine. Later: spec. a dark red wine similar to port, produced mainly in South Africa; (also) the distinctive…

A high-class wine produced in and around the village of Sillery in Champagne.

See quot. 1753.

= frontignac, n.

Any of various wines produced in the Roussillon region of southern France; (formerly) spec. a sweet, red, fortified wine (cf. grenache, n.).

Used attributively and absol. to designate a light white (occasionally red) wine produced in the neighbourhood of Sancerre.

Any of various white wines produced in Alsace. Chiefly (and in earliest use) attributive, designating such a wine.

A lightly-fortified sweet wine, white or red, produced across a large area in the foothills of the French Pyrenees.

A white wine made in the Loire valley near Nantes in France; (also) the grape from which this wine is made.

A sweet, white, dessert wine, similar to Sauternes.

a rosé wine of eastern France.

A pale tawny colour, esp. as the characteristic colour of some aged red wines; a wine of this colour, esp. one produced in the Jura region of France.

A sweet wine, usually drunk with dessert, produced in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France.

A sweet, full-bodied red wine with a mellow flavour, produced at the Masdeu vineyard in southern France and sometimes drunk as an alternative to port.

Used chiefly absol. to designate the wines produced in Vouvray and neighbouring communes.

A French white wine resembling champagne.

Any of several French aperitif wines flavoured with quinine.

an aperitif wine from St. Raphael, Var, in France.

The white wine produced in Jurançon.

Any of various wines, chiefly red, produced in Minervois.

Any of various white wines produced in the area around Riquewihr in the region of Alsace in north-eastern France.

A still or sparkling French white wine made from white grapes only.

A dry white wine produced from Sauvignon blanc grapes grown in the Loire valley near the French village of Quincy.

(Also Tokay wine.) A rich sweet wine of an aromatic flavour, made near Tokay in Hungary; hence applied to a Californian wine made in imitation of…

Used attributively and absol. to designate wines of diverse types made from grapes grown in the valleys of the Loire and of its tributaries.