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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In wine-manuf., to add (to the unfermented grape-juice) sufficient water to reduce it to a given standard of acidity, and then sufficient sugar to bring the whole to the standard of sweetness scientifically determined to be the most advantageous.

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

  • transitive verb In wine making, to add water and sugar to (unfermented grape juice) so as to increase the quantity of wine produced.

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  • Imagine the gall of it!

    March 9, 2011