vermouth

→ English: vermouth

→ Romanian: vermut

→ Turkish: vermut


xérès

From Spanish Xeres, obsolete spelling of the name of the Spanish city Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia, where the beverage was produced.

De vieilles femmes étaient assises dans un coin et buvaient de petits verres de xérès. L’une d’elles fumait une longue pipe.

2007, JK Rowling, translated by Jean-François Ménard, Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers [Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone], Gallimard Jeunesse, page 77:


champagne

→ Catalan: xampany

→ Dutch: champagne

→ English: champagne

→ Korean: 샴페인 (syampein)

→ German: Champagner

→ Greek: σαμπάνια (sampánia)

→ Italian: champagne

desc

→ Norwegian Bokmål: champagne, sjampanje

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: champagne, sjampanje

→ Polish: szampan

→ Portuguese: champanhe

→ Spanish: champaña, champán

→ Swedish: champagne

From the region Champagne, from Late Latin campānia (in this case, Campania Remensis specifically), from campāneus, from Latin campus.

(countable, uncountable, non-European French, informal) sparkling wine, generic champagne


blanquette

Borrowed from Provençal blanqueto, a diminutive of blanc (“white”), derived, through early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Equivalent to blanc (“white”) + -ette (feminine diminutive suffix). Doublet of blanchette.

af

(countable or uncountable) sparkling white wine from Languedoc made from white grapes of the "mauzac" variety


Dubonnet

a French bittersweet red aperitif (of which a drier white version is also available)


chianti

Borrowed from Italian chianti, after Chianti, its area of production. Through Latin from the Etruscan 𐌂𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌕𐌄 (clante).


viognier

Unknown. Possibly named after the French city of Vienne, where it is grown, or from the Roman pronunciation of Latin via Gehennae (“road to Hell”).


Médoc

From Latin (Pagus) Medullicus (“country of the Medulli”), the local Celtic/Gaulish tribe who had inhabited the area. This name is probably from Proto-Celtic *medwos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“mead”), or alternatively *medyos (“middle”).


blanc de noirs

fr-noun

blanc de noirs m (plural blancs de noirs)

champagne made exclusively from black grapes, especially from Pinot Noir grapes


blanc de blancs

blanc de blancs m (plural blancs de blancs)

champagne made exclusively from white grapes, especially from Pinot Blanc/Chardonnay grapes


sauvignon

Unknown, possibly related to servagnin (attested 1538, Lausanne) servagnin, sarvinien (1597), savagnin (Jura). Possibly derived from the Gallo-Roman name Salvinius before the velarization of the "-al" and with the substantive suffix "-on".


aramon

a variety of black grape from the South of France


cambusard

(nautical) a rough red wine once distributed to French sailors


Beaujolais

Beaujolais m (plural Beaujolais, feminine Beaujolaise)

Beaujolais (plural)
Beaujolaise (feminine)


clairet

Inherited from Middle French claret (compare English claret), from Medieval Latin clārātum, from Latin clārus (“clear”).

an infusion of fragrant plants in honeyed wine


counoise

a black grape variety from the Rhône valley in France


gaillac

From the Roman name of the town, whose name came from a nearby riverport, Latin Gallia Narbōnēnsis (“Narbonnian Gaul”).


guinguet

From ginguer, variant of giguer (“to dance, to jump”), from gigue.

(dated, colloquial) a rough wine produced near Paris


jurançon

/ʒy.ʁɑ̃.sɔ̃/

a white wine from the south-west of France


luberon

any of several wines (mostly red) from the valley of the Rhône


macvin

a fortified wine from the Jura region of France


Pouilly-Fumé

From Pouilly-sur-Loire, a French village where it was originally produced.


colombard

Comme ce vin, par exemple, issu de trois cépages typiques de la région, colombard, sauvignon et gros manseng.

2015 September 16, “Notre sélection de vins du Sud-Ouest 3,40 à 8,99 euros”, in Le Monde:

a white grape variety from Charentes; a wine made from these grapes