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White wine named for a river
Answer for the clue "White wine named for a river ", 7 letters:
moselle
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Moselle is a department in the east of France named after the river Moselle .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moselle \Mo*selle"\, n. A light wine, usually white, produced in the vicinity of the river Moselle.
Usage examples of moselle.
By the end of the month the British and Americans had reached the Rhine at several places north of Duesseldorf, and a fortnight later they had firm possession of the left bank from the Moselle River northward.
The confederate army passed the Moselle and the Saar in the beginning of June, and encamped at Elft in sight of the enemy, who retired with great precipitation, and intrenched themselves in the neighbourhood of Coningsmarcheren.
Negative votes in Ardèche 5, in Aude 5, Moselle 5, Saône-et-Loire 5, Côte-d'Or 4, Creuse 4, Haut-Rhin 4, Gers 4, Haute-Garonne 3, Aube 2, Bouches-du-Rhône 2, Cantal 2, Basses-Alpes 1, Haute-Marne 1, Haute-Vienne 1, Var 0, Seine 0.
Then there were the wines hocks, moselles (yeah, German, old stock, I guess), clarets and burgundies, even some vintage stuff sharing space on the edge and underneath the table with cartons of cigarettes Lucky Strike, Camel, Wills Capstan, Churchmans No 1, and some I hadn't even taken note of.
That entire Fifth Corps, together with what debris remained of the First and Seventh, was now in pell-mell retreat westward, with the whole Third Army of the boches in hot pursuit, and nothing to stop their advancing clear to the Moselle River.
At this point Fräulein Oelling disagrees and Herren Lüxenich and Petersen, sympathizing over sparkling Moselle, side with her: "Dear friend, it's never too late.
He waited for that time when he had stationed his slaves to attack me from an ambush in a poplar grove, along the Moselle.
This animal took the shape of one 'Blauenfelder', a perfectly respectable German citizen engaged in viniculture - specifically the grafting of Moselle grapes on to the Sicilian strains to enhance the sugar content of the latter which, for your passing information, [Steady on, old chap!