How to Use vinous in a Sentence

vinous

adjective
  • Beyond this season, there are vinous ways to give all year ‘round.
    — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 2023-11-28
  • Even if prices keep rising, the best-performing stocks tend to beat their vinous peers.
    — The Economist, 2019-08-24
  • Some people believe pairing wine with chocolate is a vinous sin.
    — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 2022-06-01
  • The vinous upset shouldn’t only alarm wine aficionados.
    — Jillian Kramer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2020-01-27
  • The idea of such a wine smacks of ’80s-era excess, the vinous equivalent of a perm and glittery shoulder pads.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 2020-04-30
  • This set should thrill fans of natural wine and fuel many a vinous debate over the nature of terroir and the strictures of convention.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 2023-11-25
  • The overwhelming first impression is of a vinous tartness, but this gives way to a juicy mid-palate and an appealingly dry finish.
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2019-09-12
  • For wine lovers, the only thing that is equally pleasurable to drinking the fruit of the vine is enhancing one’s knowledge of the vinous treasure.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 2022-12-01
  • Here then are three categories of hot spot — coastal, island and inland — all renowned for the sort of summers that require a thirst-quenching, vinous antidote.
    — Patrick Comiskey, latimes.com, 2018-05-15
  • Three new and notable Napa tasting rooms level up the options for top-shelf vinous experiences in the valley.
    — Sunset Magazine, 2022-08-29
  • Less told is the story of the wine program, which has grown to the point of bursting, a cascading, antediluvian overflow of wine wine wine, which dominates the restaurant’s interior tableau as a sort of none-too-subtle vinous call to arms.
    — Jordan Michelman, Los Angeles Times, 2023-05-26

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