(n.) The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment.
(n.) A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.
(n.) The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
(2) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(3) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
(4) The four members of the committee are all masters of wine, and the chairman is a retired diplomat, Sir David Wright.
(5) I went for a walk, had a locally made sandwich and sat in the dark drinking a glass of wine.
(6) Mann-Whitney U-tests showed that during the 7 years of highest wine consumption the highest rates for breast cancer occurred for females aged 30--59 years, but for women over 60 years of age the result was insignificant.
(7) His latest thinking includes introducing concierge desks to welcome shoppers and tapas bars in its wine departments.
(8) How can the CHOGM leaders condemn the dictatorship of Musharraf but happily wine and dine with Museveni?
(9) And on those occasions where I'm in the mood to take the wine pairing very seriously it's the vegetable dishes that require the most creative thought.
(10) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
(11) Determination of changes in lightness by photoelectric colorimetry provides an objective, quantitative means to evaluate the effects of laser treatment of port wine stains.
(12) The most common inhalant stupefacients were "Butapren" glue, trichlorethylene and "Roxy" fluid; wine and vodka were the alcohols used.
(13) The main cause of oesophageal cancer in western countries is consumption of alcoholic beverages, the degree of risk being much greater for certain spirits than for wine or beer.
(14) Per adult (greater than or equal to 15 years) consumption of beer, wine, spirits and absolute alcohol for a 14-year period (1971--1984) was related to female breast cancer morbidity rates in Western Australia.
(15) By abusing his power, he was engrossed in irregularities and corruption, had improper relations with several women and was wined and dined at back parlours of deluxe restaurants.
(16) If we managed to import a German royal family, why is it not possible for us to also import the German housing system – slowly, bit by bit, along with their Christmas trees and mulled wine?
(17) A solid-phase extraction method with a strong anion exchanger was used to determine these compounds in sweet wines and in grape musts.
(18) The college previously said mothers-to-be should not drink more than two units once or twice a week – a small glass of wine of 125ml is 1.5 units.
(19) In the UK, alcohol consumption has shifted substantially from moderate strength beer sold in pubs to strong lager, cider, wine and spirits sold by supermarkets for drinking at home.
(20) Duty on beer, wine and spirits will increase as planned from midnight Sunday • Tobacco duty will rise immediately by 1% above inflation this year, then 2% • Increase in fuel duty to be staged.
Winery
Definition:
(n.) A place where grapes are converted into wine.
Example Sentences:
(1) In October, the Sussex-based Bolney Wine Estates announced a £2m investment to fund further production through a new winery and major expansion into the US, Scandinavia and Asia.
(2) Historically, this was the farm and winery of the château of Saint-Victor des Oules, but it's been sympathetically converted into eight houses and apartments (sleeping from two to six people) by its British owners Emma and Michael Crane, who moved here with their young family in 2012.
(3) But he said: “I don’t think you should call for the resignation of the Speaker lightly.” The former Speaker Peter Slipper was ordered to pay back $954 worth of expenses after a court found he had misused his Cabcharge allowance to visit Canberra wineries.
(4) We arrive at Matosevic winery and collapse in the shade of a cherry tree.
(5) In order to prove this, the average values for the rosé and red wine samples from the same winery were compared.
(6) Photograph: Nick Gregan Typical of Istria's garage wineries, Matosevic is small, – really just a farmhouse – but from crushing to aging and bottling, everything is done here.
(7) Individual winery methods are suggested as primarily responsible for variations in mutagenic activity.
(8) The move away from mass-produced beer is integral to a broader trend that encompasses locavore and farm-to-table eating, community-supported agriculture and urban wineries.
(9) The market change started more than 10 years ago & now the vast majority of wine is shipped in this manner by wineries, wine clubs, and wine retailers.
(10) Famously fertile, over 110 small-scale wineries and 145 olive oil producers have sprung up across the region in the last 20 years, developing its reputation as Croatia's best corner for foodies.
(11) A brand new selection of 48 vintage and non-vintage wines will will go on sale in its 600 UK supermarket branches in September, followed by bottles from theworld-renowned Châteauneuf-du-Pape wineries.
(12) Photograph: Alamy Where to stay The Ikarian Winery Eccentric Ikaria takes a little getting to know, and there is no better place to do that than at this agri-tourism-themed vineyard near the island’s north coast.
(13) The breadth of activity that may be encompassed by the term ‘parliamentary business’ in the determination means that the prosecution had to disprove the rational possibility that the appellant travelled to the various wineries, for example, for purposes of informing himself about those businesses as part of his function as a parliamentarian, based upon his judgment of the need for such travel for that purpose,” he said.
(14) Slipper, the former Speaker, had a conviction for misusing taxpayer-funded taxi vouchers for visits to Canberra region wineries struck out in the appeal.
(15) Kerry praised the “leadership that [Leanca] and his government are providing.” “While I was in Moldova I had occasion to visit a really quite remarkable winery,” Kerry said, an underground facility that represented activity that could rejuvenate the economy.
(16) It’s not a party, but a state of mind | Anne Perkins Read more Over English sparkling wine supplied from Lord Ashcroft’s Gusbourne winery in Kent and canapes of coronation chicken and roast beef, Farage’s achievements were celebrated by a crowd that included Tory Eurosceptic MP Jacob Rees-Mogg and John Mills, the businessman and Labour donor.
(17) The detection of a collection site difference in GPO enzyme activity in the isogenic lines suggests that polymorphic variation on the second chromosome is responsible for the differentiation at the winery.
(18) Hence, individual winery production practices must represent the most significant contribution to the variations observed.
(19) Southern analysis of the Adh region of 212 Drosophila melanogaster lines collected from the Tahbilk winery revealed linkage disequilibrium between a 37-bp insertion [designated delta 2 by Kreitman (1983)] and the fast electrophoretic variant of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH-F).
(20) At the time of Abbott’s repayment in October 2013, Slipper claimed he was the victim of double standards over a case involving $954 in taxi vouchers to visit wineries outside Canberra in 2010.