soleran.
/sɒˈlɛːrə//səˈlɛːrə/ 1. A blend of sherry wine. Also attributive, as solera wine; solera system n. (see quot. 1965).
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > sherry > types of sherry
doctor1770
antimonial wine1771
Montilla1793
Paxarete1802
pale sherry1803
amontillado1804
golden sherry1830
manzanilla1843
fino1846
Bristol milk1848
brown sherry1849
solera1851
amoroso1859
brown1862
oloroso1876
Bristol cream1886
Tio Pepe1886
cream sherry1964
the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > strengthening or refreshing
fortification1885
solera system1961
1851 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines (ed. 3) 396 The finest wines come thus into England in cases... Soleras, sixteen years in wood [etc.].
1876 From Vineyard to Decanter 23 In the shippers bodega many soleras are kept, each contained in a given number of butts.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 607/1 The wines..are reared for a number of years as soleras.
1961 Times 16 Jan. 13/5 Sherry is made on the solera system.
1965 A. Sichel Penguin Bk. Wines iii. 227 The solera system is..a..method of refreshing delicately flavoured old wines still in cask with small quantities of slightly younger wine of the same character in order to keep a continuous stock of mature wine of one type and character always available.
1972 Times 11 May (Spain Suppl.) p. iii/2 The sherries are solera wines.
2. A wine-cask, usually containing a double butt.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > large for liquor > for wine
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pece1594
sack-butt1599
fudder1679
Shaftesbury1699
wine glass1709
quarter pipe?1763
leaguer1773
porron1845
solera1863
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wine fountain1889
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1863 T. G. Shaw Wine 136 Stocks are kept in casks of all sizes, generally double butts, called soleras.
1863 T. G. Shaw Wine 139 The bungs of the soleras are never driven home.
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