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Varietal wines

LC control no.sh2009007509
Topical headingVarietal wines
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Variant(s)Wines, Varietal
See alsoWine and wine making
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Found inWork cat.: Widmer's varietals, 1960.
Oxford companion to wine, 2006: p. 727 (Varietal: Descriptive term for a wine named after the dominant grape variety from which it is made. The word is increasingly misused in place of vine variety. A varietal wine is distinct from a wine named after its own geographical provenance (as the great majority of European wines are), and a generic wine, one named after a supposed style ...)
Lexique de la vigne et du vin, 1963: p. 415 (Varietal wine: Wine made principally from one variety of grapes and called by the name of that variety)