Crossword clues for muscatel
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Muscatel \Mus"ca*tel`\, a. Of, pertaining to, or designating, or derived from, a muscat grapes or similar grapes; as, muscatel grapes; muscatel wine, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, variant of muskadell (c.1400), from Old French muscadel, from Old Provençal *muscadel, diminutive of muscat "(grape) with the fragrance of musk" (see muscat).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A muscat grape or raisin, especially one from southern Spain. 2 A sweet wine made from these grapes.
WordNet
n. wine from muscat grapes [syn: muscat, muscadel, muscadelle]
sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine [syn: muscat, muscat grape]
Wikipedia
Muscatel is a type of wine made from muscat grapes. The term is now normally used in the US to refer to a fortified wine made from these grapes rather than just any wine made from these grapes. This fortified muscatel became popular in the US when, at the end of prohibition, in order to meet the large demand for wine, some poor strains of muscat grapes (used normally for table grapes or raisins) mixed with sugar and cheap brandy were used to produce what has since become infamous as a wino wine. This kind of fortified wine has, in the US, damaged the reputation of all muscat based wines and the term muscatel tends no longer to be used for these "better" wines in the US. In other markets the term Muscatel, or Moscatel, refers to a wide range of sweet wines based on these grapes.
Usage examples of "muscatel".
As I was bidding him adieu, he gave me an order on his house at Naples for a barrel of muscatel wine, and he presented me with a splendid box containing twelve razors with silver handles, manufactured in the Tour-du-Grec.
Don Gennaro, as I returned home, managed to thank me for my handsome present without laughing, and the next day Don Antonio, to make up for the muscatel wine I had sent him, offered me a gold-headed cane, worth at least fifteen ounces, and his tailor brought me a travelling suit and a blue great coat, with the buttonholes in gold lace.
I thanked the Greek for his delicious muscatel wine, and, requesting his address in Naples, I assured him that he would see me within a fortnight, as I was determined to secure a cask of his Cerigo.
A bottle of white fluid sat on the table by the phonograph, and on a smaller table on her other side a swinging rack cradled a gallon of muscatel, tiltable for pouring.
Don Gennaro, as I returned home, managed to thank me for my handsome present without laughing, and the next day Don Antonio, to make up for the muscatel wine I had sent him, offered me a gold-headed cane, worth at least fifteen ounces, and his tailor brought me a travelling suit and a blue great coat, with the buttonholes in gold lace.
I have some rare Cerigo muscatel, and we can taste it if you have no objection to dine with me.
As we came out of the palace of the duchess, I left my friends and went alone to Panagiotti's to claim the barrel of muscatel wine.
The day after reading Blobb's Peregrinations she, with Bortz, Grace, and the graduate students, attended Randolph Driblette's burial, listened to a younger brother's helpless, stricken eulogy, watched the mother, spectral in afternoon smog, cry, and came back at night to sit on the grave and drink Napa Valley muscatel, which Driblette in his time had put away barrels of.
They were having baked ham, lye hominy, stewed okra and corn, Southern biscuits, and finished with sweet-potato pie and muscatel wine.