What is "malvoisie"

Usage examples of "malvoisie".

He owes hundreds of pounds for Malvoisie and Muscadel and Rhenish wine sent from London through Newcastle and transported here by carriage.

His wine he takes hot when the nights are cold, malvoisie or vernage, with as much spice as would cover the thumb-nail.

I had but sat down to a flask of malvoisie and a mortress of brawn, as is my use about this hour, when there comes a cherking, and I find my wine over my legs and the flask in my lap, and then as I stoop to clip it there comes another cursed cherk, and there is a mortress of brawn stuck fast to the nape of my neck.

It was consequently a thoughtful Bertram Wooster who half an hour later sat toying with a stoup of malvoisie in the smoking room of the Drones Club.

Sicily, the Malvoisie grape from Crete, even the rabbit from Portugal.

Subsequently, she sent him a couple of larks, though the others had only one each, and she quite surprised the butler by drinking to her humble guest in a glass of malvoisie, and sending him a silver flagon full of the same wine.