Meanings
- not comparableIn the manner of a grape or grapes.
That innocence may tread on innocence / And crush it grapewise to a morbid wine
1927, Wallace Bertram Nichols, Prometheus in Piccadilly, page 84 - not comparableIn terms of grapes.
It [the wine] was five dollars more expensive than the bottle this Mr. Foley had ordered but grapewise it was along the same lines and Frederick did not honestly think that Mr. Foley would be checking the prices on the bill.
2015, Sean McCabe, Breakfast in Woodside Vol 1, page 1221 more example
Grapewise, it [New Zealand] thus behaves much more like northern Europe and, unfettered by tradition, the youthful and tiny wine industry has been able to plant varieties of wine that top the league table on this side of the globe.
1985, Punch, volume 288, page 51
Origin
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