blush wine

noun

: any of various pinkish table wines

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The blush wine retailed for $30 a bottle and was sold staring in sets of three ($90), and marked the Duchess of Sussex's first splash into selling alcoholic beverages. Janine Henni, People.com, 2 July 2025 Made of pinot noir grapes that are harvested in Monterey County, the refreshing blush wine is sustainably crafted in Santa Rosa, California. Lindzi Scharf, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2023 Badger Blush is fun, refreshing, bright, with notes of black cherry, cranberry and raspberry all jumbled up in this lighthearted really approachable blush wine. Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2022 Unsurprisingly, as wine connoisseur, Davis prefers French blush wine to Japanese saké. Amiah Taylor, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022 Light-bodied, aromatic, and perfectly fruity, a sip of this crisp blush wine will transport you to the South of France, where it’s made. Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021 Under Corti’s influence, Bob Trinchero, winemaker at Sutter Home, had been bottling Amador Zinfandels and pressing some of the grapes into blush wine. Jonathan Kauffman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019 And while Americans have christened the spring and summer as rosé season, the blush wine, with its full range of profiles, shouldn’t be limited to only the warmer months of the year. Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al.com, 19 July 2019

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First Known Use

1984, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of blush wine was in 1984

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“Blush wine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blush%20wine. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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