SIMURG
press wine
EN
c.n.
Dark red wine squeezed from pomace (grape skins, stem fragments, pulp, and dead yeast) by means of a wine press.
Press wine is generally inferior in quality to free-run wine, and much more astringent, although some presses are capable of exerting pressure in controlled stages so that the product of the first, gentle pressing is very close to free-run in quality. […] A certain proportion of press wine may be incorporated into the free-run wine, especially if it lacks tannin.
The high quality "free run" wine is poured straight into barrels or stainless steel to rest and mature. The remaining mulch of juice, skins, and stalks is pressed, to extract a strong, tannic liquid known as "press wine".
[prɛs] [waɪn] 4
Press juice
Press: "exerting pressure," mid-14c.
Wine: Old English win, from P.Gmc. *winam (cf. O.S., O.Fris., O.H.G. win, O.N. vin, Du. wijn, Ger. Wein), an early borrowing from L. vinum "wine," from PIE *win-o-, from an Italic noun related to words for "wine" in Gk. (oinos), Armenian, Hittite, and non-I.E. Georgian and West Semitic (cf. Arabic wain, Heb. yayin), probably from a lost Mediterranean language word *win-/*woin- "wine." Also from L. vinum are O.C.S. vino, Lith. vynas, Welsh gwin, O.Ir. fin.
Università degli Studi di Genova, Dipartimento di lingue e culture moderne, Corso di Laurea in Teorie e Tecniche della Mediazione Interlinguistica.
Alice Fiorito
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2 : Robinson J., The Oxford Companion to WINE, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994, p. 759.
3 : http://www.wine-pages.com/resources/hand3.htm
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4 : Ragazzini G., Il Ragazzini 2012. Dizionario inglese-italiano Italian-English, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2012, p. 968-1479
5 : http://www.etymonline.com/
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