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spumante|spuːˈmæntiː|
Also erron. spumanti.
[It., = ‘sparkling’.]
A sparkling (usu. sweet) white wine from Asti in Piedmont; in full, Asti Spumante.
1908C. E. Hawker Chats about Wine 89 The Frenchman with his Sillery..The Italian with his Asti Spumante, all favour sweetness. 1938C. Isherwood Lions & Shadows i. 37 To celebrate the achievement, Mr. Holmes has ordered Asti Spumanti. What a marvellous drink!.. So cool and fizzy and sweet. 1945Comment from Italy (Three Arts Club) 22 It was beer issue night, and most of the groups had reinforced it with bottles of vino, vermouth, and spumanti as well. 1958L. Durrell Balthazar iii. x. 206 Pursewarden was inveighing somewhat incoherently against the Cervonis for serving Spumante instead of champagne. 1971Country Life 25 Nov. 1466/2 A dry spumante wine. 1982Sunday Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 7 Mar. 38/3 The Spumanti was flowing in the officers' mess, everyone cheering. |