vinophile

plural vinophiles

1. Synonym of oenophile.

   Morgan didn’t drink, but Morgana owned an extensive wine cellar and knew all the right terms of a vinophile.

   2009, Debra Salonen, “Chapter Two”, in Picture-Perfect Mom, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 33

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   If no Franco-vinophile is likely to lose his allegiance to French wines after a visit to Piedmont, it should at least widen his horizons in one of the most attractive wine-producing areas in Europe.

   1971 November 25, Country Life, volume 150, page 1468, column 3

   Apparently the entire family are keen – if amateur – vinophiles, and the carafe placed on our table was not only, we were assured, home bottled, but also home brewed.

   1979, Morley Marvels: Memoirs, Notes, and Essays of the Famed Actor, Raconteur, Collector, Hotel Guest, and Man of Leisure, A. S. Barnes and Company, →ISBN, page 37

   The early dominance of the French in the Mississippi Valley meant that many experiments by small communities and by individuals of that vinophile race—clerical as well as lay—were certainly made with both native and imported grapes.

   1989, Thomas Pinney, “7. The Spread of Commercial Winegrowing”, in A History of Wine in America: From the Beginnings to Prohibition, University of California Press, →ISBN, “The Missouri Germans”, page 174

   My own favourites were a 1976 Wintricher Ohligsberg Riesling Auslese and a 1977 Bernkastler Badstube Kabinett, and by the time I had sampled plenty of these and compared them, for scientific purposes only naturally, with a dozen or so other wines, I found myself saying, in all seriousness, that I found another wine – I think it was the ’76 Zeltinger Himmelreich Riesling Auslese – rather ‘leafy’. I do appreciate that ‘leafy’ is not a part of the vinophile’s largely inaccessible vocabulary, but I knew what I meant when I said it.

   2008, Sheila Ravenscroft, “Wine-tasting with Walters”, in The Olivetti Chronicles: Three Decades of Life and Music: John Peel, Corgi Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 459

   Jacoby, however, thoroughly enjoyed the vinophile’s ritual, eagerly volunteering to sample the current offering, sniffing the cork, swirling the precious vintage, inserting his ample nose in the goblet, and finally sipping the nectar, eyes closed in a mock-erotic reverie.

   2010, Jim Nelson, “3. The Banquet”, in The Red Island, iUniverse, →ISBN, pages 9–10

   Synonyms: oenophile