A strong and sweet kind of white Italian wine.

a variety of vernage.

transferred and figurative. plural. The Italian sweet wine known as Lacryma Christi, n. Obsolete. rare.

A type of wine produced in Rome or the surrounding region. Now historical.

A wine produced at Montefiascone in Italy. Cf. Montefiascone, n.

A wine from Campania in southern Italy, made in sparkling, white, rosé, and red varieties from grapes originally grown on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius.

= Falernian, adj.

Belonging to Surrentum or the neighbouring hills, anciently famous for an excellent wine.

A red wine made in Tuscany.

A wine from Palermo in Sicily.

A wine made of a white grape grown in the neighbourhood of Arcetri near Florence. Also attributive.

= verdea, n.

A sweet white wine made in the region of Montefiascone. Also more fully Montefiascone wine.

A full-bodied red wine produced in Montepulciano from the Sangiovese grape. Formerly also: †a white wine from the Montepulciano area (see quot…

a sweet white dessert wine; = vinsanto, n.

Wine of Setia.

A kind of wine brought from Florence. Obsolete.

Of or pertaining to the ager Falernus in Campania, which produced a celebrated wine. Also absol., Falernian wine.

A wine from Campania in southern Italy; = Lacryma Christi, n.

A sweet wine from the Messina region of Sicily.

A sweet red wine made from a variety of grape grown chiefly in southern Italy; (also) this variety of grape.

A wine (usually white) produced in the San Gimignano area of Italy and in Sardinia; also, the grape from which it is made.

A Sardinian red (or, less commonly, white or rosé) wine made from the variety of grape known in France as grenache and in Spain as garnacha. Also…

In full Chianti wine. A dry red wine, also a white wine, produced in a specified area of Tuscany; loosely applied to various inferior Italian wines.

A usually dry white wine made near the city of Orvieto. Also Orvieto wine.

Sabine wine. rare.

A full-bodied red wine of Piedmont.

Any of various wines produced originally in Capri. Cf. caprik, n.

A white wine, slightly or (usually) fully sparkling and ranging from dry to medium sweet, from the Veneto region of north-east Italy; (also) the…

A type of sweet Italian dessert wine. Also: the grape from which the wine is produced.

Used to designate the red or rosé wine made in Valpolicella.

A full-bodied sweet or semi-sweet red wine from the Valpolicella region of north-eastern Italy, made from grapes which are dried after picking in…

A sparkling (usually sweet) white wine from Asti in Piedmont; in full, Asti Spumante.

A sparkling red wine produced in both dry and sweet varieties throughout the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy; the grape from which this…

Used attributively and absol. to designate a dry white wine made in Soave.

A wine (usually white) produced in the Frascati region.

The name of a red wine from the Valtellina district, Lombardy, in Italy.

A rich, full-bodied, dry red wine made from grapes dried after picking in the Valpolicella region of north-eastern Italy.

A full-bodied red wine produced in the Montalcino region of Tuscany. Cf. brunello, n.

The white wine produced from this grape.

= vino santo n. at vino, n. compounds.

A full-bodied red wine produced in the Montalcino region of Tuscany. Sometimes also: the Sangiovese grape from which this is made. Cf. Brunello di…