Wine vs. Brandy — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Wine and Brandy
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Wine
Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from fermented grapes. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol, carbon dioxide and heat.
Brandy
Brandy is a liquor produced by distilling wine. Brandy generally contains 35–60% alcohol by volume (70–120 US proof) and is typically consumed as an after-dinner digestif.
Wine
An alcoholic drink made from fermented grape juice
He opened a bottle of red wine
The regional foods and wines of France
Brandy
An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.
Wine
Entertain someone by offering them drinks and a meal
Members of Congress have been lavishly wined and dined by lobbyists for years
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Brandy
To preserve, flavor, or mix with brandy.
Wine
Dance with rhythmic gyratory movements of the pelvic region
The crowd jumped and wined and churned the field into mud
Brandy
(uncountable) An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.
Wine
A beverage made of the fermented juice of any of various kinds of grapes, usually containing from 10 to 15 percent alcohol by volume.
Brandy
(countable) Any variety of brandy.
Wine
A beverage made of the fermented juice of any of various other fruits or plants.
Brandy
(countable) A glass of brandy.
Wine
Something that intoxicates or exhilarates.
Brandy
(transitive) To preserve, flavour, or mix with brandy.
Wine
The color of red wine.
Brandy
A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain.
Wine
To provide or entertain with wine.
Brandy
Distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice
Wine
To drink wine.
Wine
An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.
Wine is usually stronger than beer.
"Wine improves with age but I improve with wine," she slurred as she slid gracefully beneath the table.
Wine
An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting other substances, producing a similar ABV.
...dandelion wine, rice wine, plum wine...
Wine
(countable) A serving of wine.
I'd like three beers and two wines, please. My friend will have the same.
Wine
(uncountable) The color of red wine, a deep reddish purple.
Wine
Wind.
Wine
(transitive) To entertain with wine.
Wine
(intransitive) To drink wine.
Wine
The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Bacchus, that first from out the purple grapeCrushed the sweet poison of misused wine.
Wine
A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.
Wine
The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.
Noah awoke from his wine.
Wine
Fermented juice (of grapes especially)
Wine
A red as dark as red wine
Wine
Drink wine
Wine
Treat to wine;
Our relatives in Italy wined and dined us for a week
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