Special Vocabulary: Wine

Wine is an alcoholic drink made from grapes
white / red wine
It can also be made from fruit
apple wine
Table wine is wine intended for drinking with a meal, especially wine that is not very expensive.
A wine bar is a type of bar that serves mainly wine and also usually provides light meals. Wine-coloured is an adjective which means “having the colour of wine”
a wine-coloured dress

Common varieties of wine

Cabernet Sauvignon red wine is wine having a red colour derived from skins of dark-coloured grapes grown especially in the Bordeaux region of France and northern California.

Chartreuse: strong sweet green or yellow alcoholic drink.
Malbec: a red wine made from Malbec grapes.
Merlot: red wine made from the Merlot black grape.
Marsala: a sweet strong wine from Marsala in the island of Sicily.
Muscatel: a sweet light-coloured wine made from a grape of the same name.
Port: strong, usually sweet dark Portuguese wine, usually drunk after a meal.
Sherry: a pale or dark brown sweet or non-sweet strong wine from Spain.
Sparkling wine: giving off bubbles of gas.
Champagne is the most expensive type of sparkling wine.