Samosn.
/ˈseɪmɒs/ Any of several types of fortified dessert wine (including Muscat) produced in Samos.
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1865 R. Druitt Rep. Cheap Wines viii. 83 Samos and Patras are new rich wines of full body and peculiar flavour.
1926 P. M. Shand Bk. Wine x. 258 When I was about sixteen I tasted some soi-disant Samos clandestinely in France.
1957 L. W. Marrison Wines & Spirits viii. 168 Especially in the islands, several richer and more alcoholic wines are made for export... The most well known of these are Mavrodaphne, and Samos wine.
1975 P. V. Price Taste of Wine v. 74/2 Today a dry Samos is also made; both must by law be 100 per cent Muscat.
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