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  • Enjoy them with Cassis wine of which there are only 14 producers, a heady blend of marsanne, clairette and ugni blanc, and not to be confused with the blackcurrant crème de cassis.

    Budget wine trips in France 2011

  • Two rows over, my eleven-year-old stood, filling his bucket with clairette grapes while my nine-year-old daughter collected the grenache further back.

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • Two rows over, my eleven-year-old stood, filling his bucket with clairette grapes while my nine-year-old daughter collected the grenache further back.

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • Two rows over, my eleven-year-old stood, filling his bucket with clairette grapes while my nine-year-old daughter collected the grenache further back.

    pourriture - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • Two rows over, my eleven-year-old stood, filling his bucket with clairette grapes while my nine-year-old daughter collected the grenache further back.

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • Two rows over, my eleven-year-old stood, filling his bucket with clairette grapes while my nine-year-old daughter collected the grenache further back.

    pourriture - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • Possessing 570 acres of vineyards producing rich amber-coloured, luscious, and spirituous wines, made principally from the clairette and picardan grapes.

    The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

  • _Eau clairette_ is the name given to a sort of cherry-brandy; and lapidaries apply the name _clairette_ to a precious stone, the colour of which is not so deep as it ought to be.

    Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various

  • Therefore we drank rich and strong Tavel, and delicate Ledenon, and heavy Frontignan -- the cloyingly-sweet Mouscat de Maroussa -- and home-made champagne (the _clairette_, with a superabundance of pop and fizz but undeniably cider-like), and at last, for a climax, old

    The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881

  • Made from marsanne, viognier, bourboulenc and clairette, this topranked example is medium-bodied, with a round, silky feel resolving with a lightly chalky finish and kick of invigorating bitterness.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Beppi Crosariol 2011

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