vinn.

1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 161 Those Wines thus in the Must are called..Vin des Liqueurs.

1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain II. xxxvii. 38 Barren as the Crau appears to be, it..produces such excellent wine..that it is called Vin de Crau, by way of pre-eminence.

1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines iii. 51 What are called in France vins du liqueur, are those in which the saccharine principle has not entirely disappeared during the process of fermentation, and been changed into alcohol.

1842 R. Browning Bells & Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics 15/2 For council dinners made rare havock With Claret, Moselle, Vin-de-Grave, Hock.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 242/1 Among the best Swiss wines are those of..Muscat, Fendant and Vin du Glacier (all in the Valais).

1939 B. Collier Catalan France xii. 273 In the case of wines intended to be drunk as apéritif or dessert wines..[the colour] is usually that indicated by the terms ‘vin d'or’ or ‘doré’.

1955 Times 5 Aug. 7/4 The agreement also foresees an increase in the export of French vins d'appellation to the value of 350M. francs.

1967 A. Lichine Encycl. Wines & Spirits 543/2 Vin de liqueur. This French term has two meanings. 1. A very sweet wine, such as a rich Sauternes. 2. Wine of approximately 18% of alcohol caused by the addition of brandy and added to Champagne prior to shipment.

1968 ‘R. Amberley’ Incitement to Murder i. 18 The wine..was not an appellation contrôlée, or even a vin de qualité supérieure; it was..an unpretentious local wine.

1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines v. 176 At Moulins they make a species called vin fou, or mad wine, or rather..‘drunkard's wine’. They fill a small, strong-bound cask, having no bung, with must; this they put into another cask, and plunge it into the vat, from which it is not withdrawn until the fermentation ceases.

1849 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 22 Dec. (1954) I. 324 Dear Sara's letter is..not at all physicky—rather an agreeable draught of vin sucré.

1920 G. Saintsbury Notes on Cellar-bk. xi. 162 Vin brulé, a very popular beverage in Old France, and a regular Christmas and New Year tradition in the Channel Islands.

1952 V. Wilkins King Reluctant i. vi. 94 It is at least drinkable—a vin bourgeois.

1958 A. L. Simon Dict. Wines 161/2 Vin chaud, mulled wine.

1966 P. V. Price France: Food & Wine Guide ii. 238 The ‘vin fou’ of the Jura is made by bottling either white or rosé wine at the peak of its first fermentation.

1974 Times 10 Aug. 11/2 A white Corbières. Vin Vert. Montagne d'Alaric.

1889 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea I. xii. 308 The vin ordinaire which is compris, is good.

1910 G. B. Shaw Let. ?16 Apr. (1972) II. 921 Further excitement is provided by the institution of vin compris at meals.

1967 Observer 14 May 28/3 Vin compris in Camden. ‘Free wine tasting,’ promised the notice.

1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines vi. 193 Their [sc. the Spaniards'] boiled wines, or vins cuits, as the French call them, are mingled with other growths.

1962 Times 21 Dec. 10/7 The bottle of vin cuit or unfermented wine.

1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines iii. 51 The wines called vins de paille are so denominated from the grapes being laid for several months upon straw before they are taken to the press.

1964 A. Sichel Penguin Bk. Wines iii. 159 Vins de paille, the second of the unusual white wines of the Jura, get their name from the straw mats on which the black Poulsard and Trousseau grapes are dried for several weeks before being pressed.

1972 Country Life 14 Dec. 1660/1 Nowadays the grapes are normally laid not on mats but on trays... To produce a litre of vin de paille takes about 12–15 kilos of grapes.

1948 A. Waugh Unclouded Summer vii. 142 They had treated it as a vin de table.

1981 New Yorker 28 Dec. 49/1 I took a half-litre bottle of Sichel le Cellier, vin de table, rouge.

1920 Punch 30 June 512/1 The Prime Minister was celebrating the longest—and pretty nearly the hottest—day by a vin d'honneur at Boulogne.

1947 E. Waugh Scott-King's Mod. Europe 25 Vin d'honneur offered to the delegates by the Municipality of Bellacita.

1978 Broadcast 6 Mar. 4/1 A vin d'honneur at Television Centre for TFI's news director.

1958 A. L. Simon Dict. Wines 162/1 Vin doux, grape-juice before it ferments and becomes wine; also used for a ‘sweet’ wine.

1959 W. James Word-bk. Wine 197 Vins doux naturels, The Frenchman's logic has strange lacunae;..the unnatural and fortified sweet wines made in the south-east [read: south-west] corner of his own country he blandly calls ‘natural sweet wines’.

1981 Country Life 23 July 261/3 That delectable Muscat wine, a vin-doux-naturel.

1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain II. xlix. 138 I could not help treating him with a bottle of vin de paîs.

1822 tr. L. Simond Switzerland I. 34 A well-seasoned veal pie, a boeuf-a-la-mode, plenty of the best vin du pays, and even a dessert.

1935 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 July 459 A renewed zeal for the land of England, and, especially for the savour of its products, of its beef and cheese and fruit and vin du pays or cider.

1965 P. O'Donnell Modesty Blaise i. 16 He has a wonderfully varied list of girl-friends. From premier cru to honest vin du pays.

1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines v. 176 A vin gris, a grey or rather brown wine, is made here [i.e. at Gannat] by leaving the must to ferment for forty-eight hours.

1958 A. L. Simon Dict. Wines 162/1 Vin gris, light red wine of Lorraine and Alsace, usually made of mixed black and white grapes.

1974 Times 18 May (Suppl.) p. i/4 The vin gris of the Jura.

1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines iii. 51 The mousseux wines of Arbois are called vins blanc de garde, and when old, vin jaune.

1966 P. V. Price France: Food & Wine Guide ii. 239 The two extraordinary wines of the Jura are the vins jaunes and vins de paille... Vins jaunes are made solely from the Sauvignon grape..taste slightly like sherry, though..they are not fortified in any way.

1981 Times 12 Dec. 12/4 The odd Jura wine, Château Chalon..is a vin jaune..staying long in cask, wherein a veil forms on the surface.

1789 A. Young Jrnl. 7 July in Trav. France (1792) i. 132 I solaced myself with a bottle of excellent vin mousseux for 40s.]

1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines ii. 30 Those wines which effervesce (vins mousseux) are impregnated deeply with carbonic acid gas.

1972 A. Ross London Assignment 47 I..pulled the napkin off the foil-topped bottle. It was a vin mousseux, and not a very good one.