单词 | tarragona |
释义 | Tarragonan. Used attributively and absol. to designate any of various wines produced in Tarragona (see quot. 1958). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > Spanish wines > [noun] Alicantc1500 tent1542 hollock1576 tinto1599 Malaga1608 sherry1608 Peter-see-me1617 arrope1622 steelback1633 Peter1679 mountain wine1700 mountain Malaga1705 mountain1710 benecarlo1734 Pedro Ximenez1801 Algarbe1823 Valdepeñas1832 Rioja1863 Tarragona1888 margarita1903 rosado1956 Albariño1972 Spanish1977 cava1978 Tempranillo1989 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 607/2 In Catalonia there is a much more important wine industry, the district producing what is known in England as Tarragona or Spanish red. 1926 F. H. Butler Wines & Wine Lands of World v. 50 From the Catalan country, on the same sea-board but much to the north, come the abundant Tarragona wines. 1958 A. L. Simon Dict. Wines 153/2 Tarragona..is also, the name given to the best fortified wines of Catalonia, wines very dark in colour, naturally very sweet, and the fermentation of which is checked by added Brandy—as with Port. Tarragona was for many years the poor man's Port. Its chief merits were its deep colour, its great sweetness, its high alcoholic strength and its low price. 1967 A. Lichine Encycl. Wines & Spirits 504/2 The wine actually named Tarragona is sweet... The appellation is restricted to the dessert and fortified red and white wines produced within a delimited area and matured or prepared in the cellars of Tarragona, or of Reus close by. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1888 |
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