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Word: moscatel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...ordering pisco Italia, which has a heady, perfumed bouquet, is labeled by fellow drinkers as a little short in the masculine virtues. The heavy, sweet flavor of pisco moscatel (distilled from muscatel wine) is for the unsophisticated drinker. The young blade disappointed in love seeks forgetfulness in eight or ten straight shots of cherry-flavored pisco. The pisco connoisseur drinks the high-powered Moquegua, distilled from the grapes of the dry, sandy soil of southern Peru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wine of the Country | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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