low wine

noun

A liquor containing about 20 percent alcohol, produced by the first distillation of wash; the first run of the still.

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Meanings

nounlow wine (countable and uncountable, plural low wines)

plural low wines · alternative low-wine

  1. countablein pluraloftenuncountableA liquor containing about 20 percent alcohol, produced by the first distillation of wash; the first run of the still.

    In distillation of Irish whiskey the low wine fraction is split into two, a weak low wine and a strong low wine.

    1987, Vidar F. Larsen, “Alcohol recovery”, in David R. Berry, I. Russell, G.C. Stewart, editors, Yeast Biotechnology, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 507
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    A low-wines still's distilling power cannot be ascertained by the actual bulk of the distillates in strong and weak feints and spirits obtained in a given time, […].

    1893, John Albert Nettleton, The Manufacture of Spirit: As Conducted at the Various Distilleries of the United Kingdom, London: Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, page 125
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