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Definition of Rhine wine
1. Noun. Any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany ('hock' is British usage).
Generic synonyms: White Wine
Specialized synonyms: Riesling, Liebfraumilch
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Derivative terms: Rhenish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhine Wine
Literary usage of Rhine wine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1873)
"The characteristic Rhine-wine grapes are ill small-sized ; the Chasselas alone
has medium sized crapes and gives, with few exceptions, inferior wine, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"... of high-class Rhine wine. The large proportion of sugar in southern grape
juice would appear to be inimical to the development of that superior flavour. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1872)
"Then half a glass of soft Rhine wine —if it is a good Marcobrunner, that is
excellent. Then you eat one slice of the black bread, with butter on it, ..."
4. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1894)
"RHINE-WINE. WITH laurel wreathe the glass'« vintage mellow, And drink it gaily
dry I Through farther Europe, know, my worthy fellow, For such in vain ye '11 ..."
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