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Answer for the clue "Port or claret? ", 8 letters:
bordeaux

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bordeaux \Bor*deaux"\, a. Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France. -- n. A claret wine from Bordeaux.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bordeaux is a city in France. It may also refer to:

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, type of wine imported from the city in southwestern France. Its name is Roman Burdigala (1c.), perhaps from a Celtic or pre-Celtic source the sense of which has been lost.

Usage examples of bordeaux.

Franklin had wasted no time confirming what Adams had heard at Bordeaux.

It was postmarked again in Dublin as a backstamp, and then got stamped at London and Boulogne before arriving in Bordeaux.

Bordeaux, San Sebastian, La Coruna, Lisbon, and finally through the Strait of Gibraltar.

The Saint Emilion was wholly authentic, although the Bordeaux region and its immediate neighbors had been replanted from gene banks as recently as 2330, when connoisseurs had decided that the native rootstocks had suffered too much deterioration in the tachytelic phase of ecospheric deterioration which had followed the environmental degradations of the Crash.

Are you a whisky man like myself, or does your Harrovian favour the great deep wines of Bordeaux?

A new regime was installed, dominated by supporters of the leading Marseillais Girondins, Barbaroux and Rebecquy, many of whom came from the mercantile and commercial elite of the port city, as indeed was the case at Bordeaux.

Helena in Napa, the warmer climate suits Bordeaux grapes such as cabernet sauvignon, merlot, and sauvignon blanc.

Archbishop of Bordeaux attests the case of a young ecclesiastic who was in the habit of getting up during the night in a state of somnambulism, taking pen, ink, and paper, and composing and writing sermons.

He got four louis for it, and sent me the ticket with a very tender letter, in which he assured me that he would find some money at Lyons, and that he would then return and take us to Bordeaux, where we are to find treasures.

In two days I arrived at Bordeaux, a beautiful town coming only second to Paris, with respect to Lyons be it said.

Bonnet, President of the Royal Society of Medicine of Bordeaux, had occasion to observe many soldiers during the Peninsular War, who made use of Cinchona as a preservative against different diseases, but he never found it to produce the pretended paroxysms.

Three months afterwards he got married to a very pretty girl, the daughter of a Bordeaux alderman.

Sharpe, without a battalion of his own or even a job, received permission to travel back to England with the Riflemen and so, three weeks after the French surrender, he found himself clambering on to one of the flat-bottomed river barges that had been hired to transport the army up the River Garonne to the quays of Bordeaux.

There was fresh bread and a dish of tapenade, and a good Bordeaux had been opened and decanted.

I had a hundred Louis in cash, and a bill of exchange on Bordeaux for eight thousand francs.