orange wine
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see orange, wine: especially, wine made from oranges (a citrus fruit).
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Orange wines are unlike a white and unlike a red, although they are probably more like a red than a white. They're tannic and sometimes a little bitter depending on how long the skins have contact with the juice."
- "Another summer is beginning in Marseille. Heat, rocks, panisse. Packs of Vogue cigarettes and bottles of orange wine, all emptied."
Etymology
The idiomatic sense referring to a type of grape wine is from the color; this class of wines has been made for centuries (in many countries), but this particular English-language term for them was coined as a marketing term in the early 21st century (more in Wikipedia at orange wine § Terminology). The literal sense referring to a type of citrus wine is attested since the 19th century.