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Sparkling Italian wine
Answer for the clue "Sparkling Italian wine ", 8 letters:
spumante
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Word definitions for spumante in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sparkling white wine from Asti in Piedmont, 1908, from Italian spumante , literally "sparkling," from spuma "foam, froth" (see spume ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of several Italian sparkling wines, some of which are made using the méthode champenoise.
Usage examples of spumante.
Bardolino, sat on the kitchen table with an Asti Spumante chilling for desert.
The lights were low, I was on my second glass of Spumante, and he had .
Asti Spumante retails at about thirteen dollars and ninety-nine cents.
Pietro was pouring Asti Spumante into the furrow, trying to get it to match the color of the rest of the wood.
My desire was making him sluggish, as if I were a cool, fizzy spumante that packed the necessary punch to exalt his senses and send him high as a kite.
A bottle of Luna Spumante was sweating in a bucket on the sideboard, with only two glasses beside it.
So they missed the actual instant when the lander kicked up the rusty dust of the surface, but were sharing a celebratory bottle of Asti Spumante an hour or so later when, after an interminable string of adverts, the first ever human being stepped onto the surface of another planet and claimed all its ores and energies and secrets for the benefit of the mission's various sponsors.
Annual leave is precious and it galls me to waste any of it with cousins' brats, my foul auntie and my mother's inevitable tears after a few glasses of Asti Spumante.
The wine, a full-bodied Bardolino, sat on the kitchen table with an Asti Spumante chilling for desert.
I suspect my expression at that moment would have displayed the same despairing regret of a woman who has in some moment of utter madness just swapped a case of vintage Krug for a litre of Asti Spumante.