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malmsey

[ mahm-zee ]

noun

  1. a strong, sweet wine with a strong flavor, originally made in Greece but now made mainly in Madeira.


malmsey

/ ˈ³¾É‘˳¾³úɪ /

noun

  1. a sweet Madeira wine
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of malmsey1

1325–75; Middle English malmesye < Middle Low German ≪ Monemvasia Greek town where it was originally produced
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of malmsey1

C15: from Medieval Latin Malmasia, corruption of Greek Monembasia, Greek port from which the wine was shipped
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Madeira comes in different levels of sweetness, but you want the sweetest, made with the malmsey grape.

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At the high table Sir Ector sat with his knightly guests, who had come for the morrow’s hunting, smiling and nodding and drinking burgundy or sherries sack or malmsey wine.

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Even the sweeter boal and malmsey wines are not cloying, their sugar balanced by acidity.

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The lawyers in that golden age breakfasted on “brawn and malmsey,†and supped on “venison pasties and roasted hens!â€

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The wine of Santorin, the modern representative of the famous “malmsey,†is mainly exported to Russia.

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