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Montefiascone|montefiaˈskone|
Also Monte Fiascone.
The name of a town in Latium, central Italy, used (freq. attrib.) to designate the sweet white wine made there.
1673J. Ray Observations Journey Low-Countries 363 Heer [sc. in Rome] is great variety of Wines..: as Greco, Lagrime of Naples..Monte Pulciano, di Monte fiascone. 1803C. Wilmot Let. 1 Jan. in Irish Peer (1920) 136 The Montefiascone wine is celebrated; we found it excellent. 1833C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines ix. 240 Of the home growths..another is the Monte Fiascone, of a fine aroma, and intoxicating. It is grown near the Lake Bolsena. 1966H. Johnson Wine 136 Fugger went no further, but ended his days drinking Montefiascone, and no doubt boring his boon-companions to death with the story of Est Est Est. 1967A. Lichine Encycl. Wines 356 Montefiascone, white wine grown in the foothills of the Volsini Mountains, Italy. |