A preparation of eggs, etc., put into wine to clarify it.

In sherry-making: a coarse powder made from gypsum (or occasionally from chalk-rich soil), traditionally added to grapes before crushing, mainly…

plural. Syrup added to wine or other liquor to sweeten and improve its flavour; hence, wine or other liquor thus sweetened; applied spec. to…

(See quots.)

concrete. A material used in ‘forcing’ wine.

A mixture of grape-juice, brandy, sugar, and red colouring-matter, manufactured in Portugal, and used in the adulteration of port-wine.

A mixture (consisting of sugar and certain wines, or sugar and alcohol) used to sweeten and flavour champagne.

The substance whose presence causes a ropy condition in wine.