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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A white Rhenish-type wine produced especially in Hesse in western Germany.

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  • noun a sweetened Rhenish wine (especially one from Hesse in western Germany)

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Examples

  • KELLER: Klaus-Peter Keller has inherited the responsibility of making the wines at this family estate in Rheinhessen, the home of the wine travesty known as Liebfraumilch.

    A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

  • KELLER: Klaus-Peter Keller has inherited the responsibility of making the wines at this family estate in Rheinhessen, the home of the wine travesty known as Liebfraumilch.

    A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

  • Jack's favorite restaurant was the Saddle Rock in Oakland, CA., and his favorite on their menu was "ten-minute" wild duck, washed down with his favorite imported Liebfraumilch wine.

    Jack London's Recipes: An Insight Into Jack's Dietary Habits 2010

  • He dryly recounted the drinking habits of the Swedes, whose favorite wine, over the past few decades, has advanced from German Liebfraumilch and Spanish Rioja to South African Shiraz.

    The Name of Systembolaget's Game J.S. Marcus 2011

  • For my 16th – whoops, I mean 21st - birthday, some friends splurged on a very expensive at the time ($5) Liebfraumilch, which I remember drinking with great pleasure, partly because I felt wildly sophisticated.

    The New York Cork Report: 2009

  • It 's not unlike the post-Liebfraumilch backlash that' s still bedeviling Riesling producers.

    Overcoming the Lettie Teague 2010

  • For my 16th – whoops, I mean 21st - birthday, some friends splurged on a very expensive at the time ($5) Liebfraumilch, which I remember drinking with great pleasure, partly because I felt wildly sophisticated.

    Q&A 2009

  • I will now in my mind replace his name whenever I hear it with the more pleasant thought of Liebfraumilch.

    Lieberman Camp To Obama: Back Off 2009

  • We enjoyed cheeses and fruit and I brought out a bottle of Liebfraumilch (P.J. Valckenberg).

    OTBN: Ports (and Rosés) in a Storm 2009

  • Never have so many bottles of the old, comforting, remember-the-good-old-days classics like Lancers and Mateus been opened on OTBN, not to mention at least one bottle of that old friend Liebfraumilch.

    OTBN: Ports (and Rosés) in a Storm 2009

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