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Riesling

DEFINITIONS OF: Riesling

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n white grape grown in Europe and California

Type of:
Vitis vinifera, common grape vine, vinifera, vinifera grape
common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes

n fragrant dry or sweet white wine from the Rhine valley or a similar wine from California

Type of:
Rhenish, Rhine wine, hock
any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)
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