low wine

English

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Noun

low wine (countable and uncountable, plural low wines)

  1. (often in the plural) A liquor containing about 20 percent alcohol, produced by the first distillation of wash; the first run of the still.
    Coordinate term: high wine
    • 1893, John Albert Nettleton, The Manufacture of Spirit: As Conducted at the Various Distilleries of the United Kingdom, London: Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, page 125:
      A low-wines still's distilling power cannot be ascertained by the actual bulk of the distillates in strong and weak feints and spirits obtained in a given time, […] .
    • 1987, Vidar F. Larsen, “Alcohol recovery”, in David R. Berry, I. Russell, G.C. Stewart, editors, Yeast Biotechnology, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 507:
      In distillation of Irish whiskey the low wine fraction is split into two, a weak low wine and a strong low wine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “low wine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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