cuvée
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See also: cuvee
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French cuvée, from cuve (“vat, tank”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cuvée (plural cuvées)
- Wine produced from a mixture of several grape varieties.
- 1805, Richard Shannon, A Practical Treatise on Brewing, Distilling, and Rectification:
- In every first pressing there are ordinarily two-thirds of fine wine, one-half third of the wine of the cut, and one-half third of the wine of the press; thus one cuvee of five or six pieces of wine will consist of nine or ten of fine, three or four of taille, and two or three of the press.
- (especially of champagne) The first (and highest quality) grape juice to be produced, from a given batch of gently pressed grapes.
- 1987, John J. Baxevanis, The Wines of Champagne, Burgundy, Eastern and Southern France:
- Prestige or luxury cuvées are wines designed for those who prefer greater luxuries than simple vintage wines.
French
Etymology
From cuve (“vat; tank”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
cuvée f (plural cuvées)
- the quantity of wine in a fermentation vessel
- a cuvée (blend of wine)
- vintage
- Synonym: millésime
- (colloquial) batch, group; group of students who celebrate graduation the same year
Derived terms
Further reading
- “cuvée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.