Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banyuls, contrary to what you mention, is not in any way a wine comparable to Dubonnet or Byrrh: it is a perfectly natural wine, completely uncolored, and containing no quinine or any other material whatever. In fact wine other than purely natural, coming from other than a certain specified region, made from other than certain specified grapes, cannot be shipped or sold under the name of Banyuls. It is, as you say, a dessert wine, and not an aperitif...
...Branigan Wine Award...
...agent, stepped off the electric car that carried her from Boston to Cambridge and went straight to those claustral walls, where a thousand students were eating their midday meal. She had heard that ham was occasionally served with champagne sauce and that she had seen a menu which listed wine jelly...
...word "liquor" or the phrase "intoxicating liquor" shall be construed to include alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, gin, beer, ale, porter and wine and in addition thereto any spirituous, vinous, malt or fermented liquor, liquids and compounds, whether medicated, proprietary, patented or not and by whatever name called containing one-half of 1 per centum or more of alcohol by volume which are fit for use for beverage purposes...
...Though wine was much more remote than beer, California vintners were also stirred with new hope. In that State before Prohibition were 770 wineries, of which 166 are still in operation under Federal license. Under bond are some 18,000,000 gal. of wine waiting for legal floodgates to open. The first mouquin wine catalog since 1918 was issued last week in Manhattan. The firm announced that it would have a ship loaded with a million dollars worth of wine ready to sail into New York and unload an hour after sales became legal...