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Sauternes

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Sau·ternes or sau·ternes  (s-tûrn, sô-)
n. pl. Sau·ternes (-tûrn, -tûrnz)
1. A delicate sweet white wine from the Bordeaux region of France, made from grapes that have been infected with noble rot.
2. often sau·terne (-tûrn) A sweet to moderately dry white wine from California.
[French, after Sauternes, a village of southwest France.]
Sauternes [so-turn]
Noun
a sweet white wine produced in the southern Bordeaux district of France
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Noun1.Sauternes - semisweet golden-colored table or dessert wine from around Bordeaux in France; similar wine from California
Sauterne
white wine - pale yellowish wine made from white grapes or red grapes with skins removed before fermentation


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