California wine
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- noun
- /kælɪˈfɔrnjə waɪn/
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vino de California
- An English-owned wineshop in Paris organized a blind tasting in which nine French wine experts rated French and California wines—ten whites and ten reds.
- the California wine industry
- California wine sales
- California wine list
Examples
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California wines have recently appeared at the restaurant of the Hotel Nacional in Havana.
Academic text (1996) -
This is a California wine.
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I'll, uh, bring you a bottle of California wine.
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The results shocked the wine world: California wines received the highest scores from the panel.
Blog text (29) -
I will always take a California wine, but the Napa Valley's 6,000 miles away.
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The steak she had thawed did not raise her appetite, but she did open the expensive bottle of California wine she'd been saving to go with it.
Fiction book (1997) -
During our picnic, we enjoyed a bottle of California wine that paired perfectly with the cheese.
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The local restaurant has an impressive menu featuring several California wines from various regions.
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On our trip to Napa Valley, we sampled some exquisite California wine at a renowned vineyard.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward place + product compound: 'California' (a U.S. state) + 'wine' (an alcoholic beverage) yields the meaning 'wine produced in California.' This compositional pattern (place-name + noun indicating origin) is cross-linguistically common and fully predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
California wine links California and wine. People planted many grape farms in sunny valleys like Napa and Sonoma, and a famous tasting showed these wines could beat old European wines, so today California wine means 'wine made in the state of California'.