winelike

Essentially, cru means that youre asking for serious Beaujolais, a real wine, as opposed to something winelike.

A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

Essentially, cru means that youre asking for serious Beaujolais, a real wine, as opposed to something winelike.

A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

But the first people to appreciate the cacao tree were probably after a buzz of another kind -- a fermented, winelike drink, research shows -- and only later discovered the chocolaty taste we love today.

Speedlinking 11/21/07 William Harryman 2007

The morning, which must have been toward the end of September -- Stern had lost accurate count but reckoned the day at about the twenty-fifth -- dawned clear and bracing, with just a tang of winelike exhilaration in the air.

Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

We argued with him whilst we shivered in the bracing winelike air, but Ben was stubborn.

Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903

It's also derived from grapes and delivers a lingering, faintly ghostly winelike quality.

NYT > Home Page By ROSIE SCHAAP 2011

Diller had an idea that she calls "a little iconoclastic": A red, winelike substance actually drips from the ceiling - slowly, as if it were an unintentional leak from above, or blood from an IV - and splashes messily into the lower chamber of a plexiglass vitrine so that the liquid pools up beneath, but doesn't touch, the stemware mounted sideways inside.

NYT > Home Page By TED LOOS 2010

It's a winelike Champagne, with rich woodsy undertones that add robustness to golden currant, fino

SFGate: Top News Stories Jon Bonné 2010

It's a winelike Champagne, with rich woodsy undertones that add robustness to golden currant, fino

SFGate: Top News Stories Jon Bonné 2010

Sherry vinegar has a distinctive nutty, winelike quality and great depth of flavor.

theday.Com - Breaking News 2009