And let's have a stoup of malvoisie from the oldest bin. From Wordnik.com. [Jill the Reckless] Reference
His wine he takes hot when the nights are cold, malvoisie or vernage, with as much spice as would cover the thumb-nail. From Wordnik.com. [The White Company]
All round the arena rose the cries of itinerant merchants: 'Iced malvoisie,' 'Score-cards; ye cannot tell the jousters without a score-card.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Upstairs and Other Stories] Reference
Blanquette de Limoux derives its name from the species of grape it is produced from, and which we believe to be identical with the malvoisie, or malmsey. From Wordnik.com. [Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines] Reference
Clairette de Die is made principally from the blanquette or malvoisie variety of grape, which, after the stalks have been removed, is both trodden with the feet and pressed. From Wordnik.com. [Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines] Reference
Veronica's women had brought Gianluca wine, and his mother was giving him certain drops of a stimulant in a glass of fragrant old malvoisie, while his father bent over him anxiously, still asking useless questions. From Wordnik.com. [Taquisara] Reference
I was skeptical at the moment, but time proved the correctness of my old friend's judgment; and, having been present after the opening performance at a little supper given by Burbage at which sack ran like water, and anybody who wanted another malvoisie and seltzer simply had to beckon to the waiter, I was able to conscientiously praise it in the highest terms. From Wordnik.com. [A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories] Reference
But I hope you have no more grave errand than to try if the malvoisie holds its flavour?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference
But I hope you have no more grave errand than to try if the malvoisie holds its flavour? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day] Reference
The Rhinegrave's brother fell down dead after drinking too much malvoisie; but we have had him balsamed and sent home to his family. ". From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
"Well, I cannot praise Mr.St. John till I have tasted the malvoisie which he has promised; but as for the other part of the entertainment. From Wordnik.com. [Vivian Grey] Reference
The Spanish wine and the malvoisie; 50. From Wordnik.com. [Young Beichan. (Another version of the foregoing)] Reference
The Duca, indeed, found some consolation in the delicious mountain trout, the tender lamb, the perfect salad, and the fine old malvoisie, for he liked good things and appreciated them; but the Duchessa's nature was more austerely indifferent to the taste of what she ate, while her love of established law insisted with equal austerity that any food, good or bad, should be brought before her in a certain way, by a certain number of men, arrayed in coats of a certain cut, and shaven till their faces shone like marble. From Wordnik.com. [Taquisara] Reference
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