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wine sauce

wine sauce

2 3.4
A savory liquid made with wine and broth to serve with fish or meat
  • noun
translation icon : salsa de vino
  • I have prepared for you this evening my specialty: a pasta primavera in a white wine sauce.
  • a red wine sauce
  • a white wine sauce
  • chicken in wine sauce

It has this white wine sauce and I make it with mashed potatoes and that is like my go to for a really satisfying meal.

Examples

  • Making a lean wine sauce adds a nice touch over the top after slicing and serving.

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  • Guests can order oysters Rockefeller, mussels in wine sauce, clams baked in butter, battered calamari, and plenty of other seafood favorites.

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  • Oh, it had the most delicious wine sauce.

    Happy 40th (2015)

  • - Lobster in white wine sauce.

    The Burning Plain (2008)

  • What was really not to my taste was the main course of pork fillet in a sweet wine sauce.

    Blog text (31)

  • I place the meat in the crockpot, and add the wine sauce to the meat, along with the onions and garlic.

    Blog text (29)

  • It's a glazed chicken in wine sauce... with vegetables and skin-on potatoes.

    Career Opportunities (1991)

  • It has this white wine sauce and I make it with mashed potatoes and that is like my go to for a really satisfying meal.

    Harper's BAZAAR

  • Speaking of which, I'm thinking tonight's chicken and veggies roasted in a white wine sauce.

    Blog text (21)

  • The braised chicken was served with a rich wine sauce that enhanced its flavor.

Synonyms

Burgundy sauce
vswine sauce
4.9

A rich sauce made from red wine, onions, herbs, and butter to serve with meat

uses stock as the base rather than butter
bourguignon sauce
vswine sauce
7.5

A sauce made with red wine, onions, herbs and butter, often served with beef

uses stock rather than butter as the main base
Lyonnaise sauce
vswine sauce
8.9

A brown sauce made with fried onions, parsley, and white wine, served with meat or vegetables

uses stock for a richer base instead of wine or vinegar
mushroom wine sauce
vswine sauce
4.1

A brown sauce made from mushrooms and red wine served with meat

emphasizes stock and mixed herbs rather than a mushroom focus
sauce chausseur
vswine sauce
9.5

A rich brown sauce with mushrooms, onions, tomato, and white wine for meat

uses stock and herbs rather than tomato and mushroom heavy ingredients
hunter's sauce
vswine sauce
7.4

A brown French sauce with mushrooms, tomato and white wine served with meat

focuses on wine and stock base with herbs rather than tomato richness

How Rich

wine sauce
2 3.4
sauce
569 1.0
pan gravy
1 4.5

Surface Forms

wine sauce singular
wine sauces plural

Morphology

wine + sauce

The meaning 'a sauce made with wine' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'wine' (an alcoholic beverage) and 'sauce' (a liquid condiment). Noun + noun culinary compounds are a common, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Wine sauce comes from a simple kitchen picture: cooks cook wine with broth, onions and herbs until the liquid becomes a rich sauce to pour over meat or fish. So the name literally means a 'sauce' made from wine, which is why today wine sauce refers to a savory sauce made with wine.