wineology

alternative wine-ology

1. uncountableThe study of wine.

   […]Wine College, taking courses in wineology, physics, agriculture, mathematics, etc.

   1947, Wage and Hour Cases, page 15

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   Dr. Ehrhart protested no country under the sun equaled Portugal for curiosities in mineralogy, theology, and wineology — which ology he was now convinced was the best of them all.

   1835, [William Beckford], Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha, London: Richard Bentley, page 65

   Editor John Torinus could enlighten us on wineology, crosscountry skiing, sailing and the joys and pains of being an editor.

   1975 August 24, Knauf, “Let’s chip in, buy Novitiate”, in Sunday Post-Crescent, page B-3

   Others tell me how this wine or that is hearty, or robust, or full-bodied or dry or light. I don’t understand all this wineology, which obviously makes me something less than an authority on wine.

   1979 September 23, Len Wagner, “Tastes turn from lager to Lambrusco”, in Green Bay Press-Gazette, volume LXIV, number 86, Green Bay, Wis., page N-6

   Still, what’s missing from the above account is the ritual of homemade wine[-]ology: drinking the last of last year’s wine as you crush the first of a new year’s;

   1982 May 12, Sandra Macias, “Truckee Meadows’ own little ol’ wine makers”, in Reno Evening Gazette, page 1E

   “The Oxford Companion to Wine,” edited by Jancis Robinson (Oxford University Press, $49.95). The mother of all wine reference books. Released late last year, it is a full 1,088 pages of wineology from abboccato (Italia for medium-sweet wine) to zwiegelt (Austria’s most popular dark-berried grape variety).

   1995 March 1, Douglas Bailey, “Harvesting the new crop of wine books”, in The Boston Globe, volume 247, number 60, page 62

   Synonyms: oenology, vinology