Definition of Rhine wine

1. Noun. Any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany ('hock' is British usage).

Exact synonyms: Hock, Rhenish
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

Rhetian
Rheum australe
Rheum cultorum
Rheum emodi
Rheum palmatum
Rheum rhabarbarum
Rheum rhaponticum
Rhexia
Rhian
Rhibhus
Rhincodon
Rhincodon typus
Rhincodontidae
Rhine
Rhine River
Rhine wine
Rhinegrave
Rhinegraves
Rhineland
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhinobatidae
Rhinoceros antiquitatis
Rhinoceros unicornis
Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocladiella
Rhinoestrus purpureus
Rhinolophidae
Rhinonicteris
Rhinonicteris aurantius
Rhinoptera

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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