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  • adjective Of or pertaining to oenology, the study of wine

Etymologies

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oenology +‎ -ical

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Examples

  • Casting his powerfully subversive, silent gaze round the table as a wine master held forth, Baker seemed determined to get his fellow members to "corpse": he had no time whatever for oenological waffle.

    George Baker obituary 2011

  • Just another act of oenological masturbation -- only satisfying or useful for one or a small group of people.

    Rants 2009

  • Bedeviled by rogue yeasts and other oenological disasters, the two men at times thought they might lose their sanity and their business, Browne says.

    California cult-wine makers pursue label of exclusivity Edward Robinson 2011

  • "Italy was being born and, paradoxically, 'our' people had a much broader conception of oenological boundaries than we seem to have today."

    For Italians, Summer Starts at the Beach Francis X. Rocca in Rome 2011

  • "Italy was being born and, paradoxically, 'our' people had a much broader conception of oenological boundaries than we seem to have today."

    For Italians, Summer Starts at the Beach Francis X. Rocca in Rome 2011

  • It did not help that the University of California at Davis, the Oxford and Cambridge of American oenological science, had shut down all its wine work during the 1920s.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • It did not help that the University of California at Davis, the Oxford and Cambridge of American oenological science, had shut down all its wine work during the 1920s.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Just another act of oenological masturbation -- only satisfying or useful for one or a small group of people.

    LENNDEVOURS: 2008

  • Just another act of oenological masturbation -- only satisfying or useful for one or a small group of people.

    International Riesling Foundation: What's the Point? 2008

  • Esposito's book is part autobiography, part travel story, part food diary, and part oenological tale.

    The Wine Book Club Wrap-Up for May 2009

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