American wine

noun

: a U.S. wine made from grapes developed from or containing blood of an American wild grape (Vitis labrusca) and grown chiefly in the eastern or middle western part of the U.S.

broadly : any wine made in the U.S. compare california wine

Word History

First Known Use

1772, in the meaning defined above

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