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Malmsey
Malmsey Malm"sey, n. [OE. malvesie, F. malvoisie, It.
malvasia, malavagia, fr. Malvasia, or Napoli di Malvasia, in
the Morea.]
A kind of sweet wine from Crete, the Canary Islands, etc.
--Shak.
Meaning of Malmsey from wikipedia
- Malvasia, Malvazia, and
Malmsey have been used
interchangeably for Malvasia-based wines; however, in
modern oenology, "
Malmsey" is now used
almost exclusively...
- A butt of
malmsey was a
measuring unit in
Medieval England for the
transport of
malmsey wine.
First recorded in
Geoffrey Chaucer's The
Canterbury Tales...
-
against his
elder brother,
Edward IV, and executed,
allegedly by
drowning in
malmsey wine. He
appears as a
character in
William Shakespeare's
plays Henry VI...
-
driest style, the
Madeira types are:
Malvasia (also
known as
Malvazia or
Malmsey) has its
fermentation halted when its
sugars are
between 3.5 and 6.5° Baumé...
-
against his brother. He
allegedly met his end by
being drowned in a butt of
Malmsey (according to
William Shakespeare). A
fourth creation in
England was suggested...
-
Flickerman forgot his name and
nearly snarling in
contempt at
Lepidus Malmsey after his
elimination from the Games. ****phone
Price was a
mentor in...
- Peloponnese, he
wrote about the
bounty of good
quality wines made from
Malmsey,
Muscatel and
Rumney varieties.
Everything he
tried was pleasing, except...
- town's history.
Prior to then,
Garachico was an
important port
exporting Malmsey wine and
other local produce. However, a several-w****-long
eruption poured...
-
anglicized as Bual. Bual from
Madeira is
typically less
sweet than that from
Malmsey, but more
sweet than
Sercial or Verdelho. The
vines are also
common in...
- plants.
Another theory is that the
sauce originally contained Malvasia (
malmsey) wine.
Proponents of this
theory include brandy or
sherry in the sauce...
