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Definition of Maconnais
1. Noun. Fine Burgundy wine usually white and dry.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maconnais
Literary usage of Maconnais
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Origin, Nature, and Varieties of Wine: Being a Complete by John Louis William Thudichum, August Dupré (1872)
"THE maconnais.—GENERAL DIVISION OF DISTRICT AND SOIL. This district is situated
around the ... This vineyard produces the finest class of the maconnais. ..."
2. The World in the Middle Ages: An Historical Geography, with Accounts of the by Adolphus Louis Koeppen (1856)
"... to which it formerly belonged, was bought by Duke Louis le Bon in 1400. VI.
The seigniory of BEAUJOLAIS, south of maconnais, on the right bank of tho ..."
3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"The maconnais is the district ... The Pouilly wine is the finest product of the
maconnais, and in good years is ..."
4. A History and Description of Modern Wines by Cyrus Redding (1851)
"The white wines of Pouilly rank superior to any of the red wines of the maconnais.
In good years they rival the first products of the French soil, ..."
5. Meteorological Essays by François Arago, Alexander von Humboldt, Edward Sabine (1855)
"Nor was the proceeding confined to the maconnais. Not long since a mayor, not
far from Blois, told me that in his commune, mortars were fired when storms ..."
6. Sketch of the Geography, Political Economy, and Statistics of France by James N. Taylor, P. Etienne Herbin (1815)
"... but those cities should be regarded as the depots of the wines of the maconnais,
from whence they issue for Lorraine and Tranche Comte. ..."
7. A History and Description of Modern Wine by Cyrus Redding (1851)
"The white wines of Pouilly rank superior to any of the red wines of the maconnais.
In good years they rival the first products of the French soil, ..."
8. The French Revolution by Hippolyte Taine (1878)
"In Dauphiny twenty-seven are burned or destroyed ; five in the 1 "Desastres du
maconnais," by Puthod de la Maison-Rouge (August, 17891. ..."
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