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Riesling   /rˈizlɪŋ/   Listen
Riesling

noun
1.
White grape grown in Europe and California.
2.
Fragrant dry or sweet white wine from the Rhine valley or a similar wine from California.





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"Riesling" Quotes from Famous Books



... because all colonial wines have a peculiar flavour, which makes it difficult to mistake them for the wines they profess to imitate. The Carbinet-Sauvignon grape, which I believe is the principal one used in the Bordeaux district, produces here a wine something like what you get on the Rhone. The Riesling, a Rhineland grape, resembles a brandied hock; it makes one of the best wines, and is often very palatable. The red and white Hermitage grapes do best of all. The Muscatel makes a delicious sweet wine in Adelaide, ...
— Town Life in Australia - 1883 • R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny


Words linked to "Riesling" :   Vitis vinifera, Rhenish, Rhine wine, hock, vinifera grape, common grape vine, vinifera


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