What is "clarets"

Usage examples of "clarets".

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 evening I bought the first round, two large clarets, flushed with the remunerative collapse of the Thripp marriage.

It was a Chateau Margaux, one of the great premier cru clarets from the Medoc in the province of Bordeaux.

It was a Chateau Margaux, one of the great premier cm clarets from the Medoc in the province of Bordeaux.

Burgundies, clarets, hocks mingle their intoxicating corruptions within that body both fair and foul.