high wine

noun

1. Often high wines. Distilling. a distillate containing a high percentage of alcohol.

Word History and Origins

Origin of high wine¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

As we ventured back to restaurants in fits and starts while variants surged and restrictions were lifted then reimposed, many of us recoiled from high wine markups.

From Washington Post

Less known were the high wine bills of James K. Polk, the 11th president; the rejuvenation of the White House cellar after Prohibition under Franklin D. Roosevelt; or Lyndon B. Johnson’s policy of serving only American wines at state functions, a custom that presidents, with the exception of Nixon, have stuck to ever since.

From New York Times

As in his other places, Mr. Stulman has very high wine markups, about three times retail.

From New York Times

Cannon did well on sugar, but nobody dissected the whiskey section which bored gimlet holes into the bottom of every barrel of high wine to let it out without paying a cent of tax.

From Project Gutenberg

Free trade in furs means dear beavers, dear martens, dear minks, and dear otters; and all these "dears" mean whisky, alcohol, high wine, and poison, which in their turn mean, to the Indian, murder, disease, small-pox, and death.

From Project Gutenberg