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Rhine wine   /raɪn waɪn/   Listen
Rhine wine

noun
1.
Any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany ('hock' is British usage).  Synonyms: hock, Rhenish.






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"Rhine wine" Quotes from Famous Books



... please! If I eat, I cannot play. Bring me some of that Rhine wine, Fraeulein, the white in the slanting bottles, and a plate ...
— The Black Cross • Olive M. Briggs

... would store the rest We assembled—ah! my son, we assembled. There were little glasses of fair water handed round and cubes of bread like dice, and we sipped and nibbled, that our palates might be clean. Then the bottle was brought in with the tray of glasses, the right Rhine wine-glasses of pale green, with the vine-leaves and grape-bunches about the stem. And the bottle was opened, and—— You know your Scott? Do you remember how the bottle of claret "parfumed ze apartment"? Oh, it was so when that cork was drawn! Odours of flowers ...
— Despair's Last Journey • David Christie Murray



Words linked to "Rhine wine" :   United Kingdom, Riesling, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, U.K., white wine, Great Britain, liebfraumilch, Britain, Rhenish, UK



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