WHITE WINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white wine mean? 

• WHITE WINE (noun)
  The noun WHITE WINE has 1 sense:

1. pale yellowish wine made from white grapes or red grapes with skins removed before fermentation

  Familiarity information: WHITE WINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE WINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pale yellowish wine made from white grapes or red grapes with skins removed before fermentation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("white wine" is a kind of...):

vino; wine (fermented juice (of grapes especially))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "white wine"):

Canary wine (a sweet white wine from the Canary Islands)

Chablis; white Burgundy (dry white table wine of Chablis, France or a wine resembling it)

Montrachet (a white Burgundy wine)

Chardonnay; Pinot Chardonnay (dry white table wine resembling Chablis but made from Chardonnay grapes)

Pinot blanc (dry white California table wine made from white Pinot grapes)

Sauvignon blanc (a California wine)

Moselle (German white wine from the Moselle valley or a similar wine made elsewhere)

Muscadet (dry white wine from the Loire valley in France)

hock; Rhenish; Rhine wine (any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany ('hock' is British usage))

sack (any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry))

Soave (dry white Italian wine from Verona)

Sauterne; Sauternes (semisweet golden-colored table or dessert wine from around Bordeaux in France; similar wine from California)

Chenin blanc (made in California and the Loire valley in France)

Verdicchio (a dry white Italian wine made from Verdicchio grapes)

Vouvray (a dry white French wine (either still or sparkling) made in the Loire valley)

Yquem (a sweet white French wine)

 Context examples 

They gave her wine to drink, three glasses full, one of white wine, one of red, and one of yellow, and with that her heart gave way and she died.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A little white wine and a cold bird—it is as much as the niggardly Scotchman will allow me.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)