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sparkling wine
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sparkling wine
n.
Any of various effervescent wines, such as champagne, produced by a process involving fermentation in the bottle.

sparkling wine
n
(Miscellaneous Technologies / Brewing) a wine made effervescent by carbon dioxide gas, introduced artificially or produced naturally by secondary fermentation
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Noun1.sparkling wine - effervescent winesparkling wine - effervescent wine                    
vino, wine - fermented juice (of grapes especially)
bubbly, champagne - a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there
cold duck - pink sparkling wine originally from Germany


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