sparkling wine

Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

sparkling wine

Any of various effervescent wines, such as champagne, produced by a process involving fermentation in the bottle.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

sparkling wine

(Brewing) a wine made effervescent by carbon dioxide gas, introduced artificially or produced naturally by secondary fermentation

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

spar′kling wine′

a wine that is naturally carbonated by a second fermentation.

[1690–1700]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun

sparkling wine - effervescent wine

vino, wine - fermented juice (of grapes especially)

bubbly, champagne - a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there

cold duck - pink sparkling wine originally from Germany

Translations

šumivé víno

Sekt

spumante vino frizzante

Mentioned in ?

References in classic literature ?

With sharp breezes tickled, as with sparkling wine, SNEEZETH my soul-- sneezeth, and shouteth self-congratulatingly: "Health to thee!"

View in context

724-726) Never pour a libation of sparkling wine to Zeus after dawn with unwashen hands, nor to others of the deathless gods; else they do not hear your prayers but spit them back.

View in context

Even the Tatar, uncorking the bottle and pouring the sparkling wine into the delicate glasses, glanced at Stepan Arkadyevitch, and settled his white cravat with a perceptible smile of satisfaction.

View in context

She brought him a glass of sparkling wine with her own hands, and pushing a chair nearer to the fire than the one he occupied, she said--

View in context

In a minute from the time when I drank it the delicious sparkling wine had begun to revive me.

View in context

"A charming woman!" said Athos, sipping a glass of sparkling wine. "Villainous host!" cried he, "he has given us Anjou wine instead of champagne, and fancies we know no better!

View in context

'But, in the midst of all this festivity and rejoicing, there was one individual present, who tasted not when the sparkling wines were poured forth, and who danced not, when the minstrels played.

View in context

It's a loss that sparkling wine is so widely treated as a liquid appetizer (when it's not being sprayed all over racecar drivers).

A winemaker's journal: let the bubbles begin

In 2000, a later vintage earned one of five golds in the sparkling wine category at the prestigious French wine competition, Chardonnay-du-Monde.

Stephen Cipes named 2004 CAMA agri-marketer of the year

Although both the department's vineyards and the amount of wine they produced had declined steadily over the nineteenth century, the sale of bottled sparkling wine increased by some 400 percent in volume and 600 percent in value through the second half of the century.

When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity

Modern bubbly beer and sparkling wine are produced either as real ale, via the champaignoise method, by adding a bit of sugar right before bottling to reactivate the yeasts, or in the case of commercial pasteurized beers and certain unmentionable wines, by bubbling CO[sub]2 under pressure at bottling.

Backdated bubbles

Many sellers who have overstocked on sparkling wine may have to drop prices as the end of the year nears.