château wine

noun

1. wine made at a vineyard estate in the Bordeaux region of France.

chateau wine

noun

1. a wine produced from any of certain vineyards in the Bordeaux region of France

Word History and Origins

Origin of château wine¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

What is wrong with my château wine?

From Project Gutenberg

For decades, starting as a teenage apprentice, Mr. Fleming traveled to tea estates of 1,000 acres or more — primarily in India, Sri Lanka and East Africa — searching for varieties with specific tastes in the way an oenologist knows a chateau wine.

From New York Times