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Tarragona|ˌtærəˈgəʊnə|
The name of a town and a province in north-eastern Spain, used attrib. and absol. to designate any of various wines produced there (see quot. 1958).
1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 607/2 In Catalonia there is a much more important wine industry, the district producing what is known in England as Tarragona or Spanish red. 1926F. H. Butler Wines & Wine Lands of World v. 50 From the Catalan country, on the same sea-board but much to the north, come the abundant Tarragona wines. 1958A. L. Simon Dict. Wines 153/2 Tarragona..is also, the name given to the best fortified wines of Catalonia, wines very dark in colour, naturally very sweet, and the fermentation of which is checked by added Brandy—as with Port. Tarragona was for many years the poor man's Port. Its chief merits were its deep colour, its great sweetness, its high alcoholic strength and its low price. 1967A. Lichine Encycl. Wines 504/2 The wine actually named Tarragona is sweet... The appellation is restricted to the dessert and fortified red and white wines produced within a delimited area and matured or prepared in the cellars of Tarragona, or of Reus close by. |