Winy

grapes of a winy taste

1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries, London: William Lee, V. Century, p. 125, Take Cucumbers, or Pumpions, and set them (here and there) amongst Muske-Melons, and see whether the Melons will not be more Winy, and better tasted.

They are much like ſuch Grapes as grow on our Vines, both in ſhape and colour; and they are of a very pleaſant Winy taſte.

The sun had the lovely strong winey warmth, golden over the dark-blue sea.

The sleeve-buttons were topazes, winy-yellow, lightly set in crinkly gold.

It was late on the morning following our last chapter, ere he thought he had got rid of as much of his winy headache as fitful sleep would carry off, and enveloped himself in a blue and yellow-flowered silk dressing-gown and Turkish slippers.

[…] our banquet was turned by him to a battle and our winey mirths to bloody rages.

This, however, did not altogether account for the winey intoxication of happiness that filled her body.

I thought how lucky it was I had started practising birth control during the day, because in my winey state that night I would never have bothered to perform the delicate and necessary operation.