What is "red shropsavine"

Sop \Sop\, n. [OE. sop, soppe; akin to AS. s?pan to sup, to sip, to drink, D. sop sop, G. suppe soup, Icel. soppa sop. See Sup, v. t., and cf. Soup.]

1. Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.

   He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it.
   --John xiii. 26.

   Sops in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine itself.
   --Bacon.

   The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe.
   --Shak.

2. Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology.

   All nature is cured with a sop.
   --L'Estrange.

3. A thing of little or no value. [Obs.]
   --P. Plowman.

   Sops in wine (Bot.), an old name of the clove pink, alluding to its having been used to flavor wine.

   Garlands of roses and sops in wine.
   --Spenser.

   Sops of wine (Bot.), an old European variety of apple, of a yellow and red color, shading to deep red; -- called also sopsavine, and red shropsavine.