grenachen.
A sweet wine, usually drunk with dessert, produced in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France.
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1851 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines (ed. 3) vi. 151 Good Grenache wine is made in the communes of Banyuls sur Mer, Collioure, Port Vendres, and some in the canton of Rivesaltes.
1946 G. Millar Horned Pigeon xxii. 372 There was good grenache for an apéritif.
1958 A. L. Simon Dict. Wines 86 Grenache, a sweetish red or tawny dessert wine from the Pyrénées (Roussillon) made chiefly in the Banyuls district from Grenache grapes.
1963 L. Durrell in Holiday Jan. 74/3 A Blanc de Blanc to accompany the pâté and the fish, and then a grenache.
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