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  • This cuvée comes from a parcel of 46-year-old, horse-plowed vines comes, fermented with whole clusters of grapes and then aged in 600-liter oak barrels called “demi-muids” for 18 months.

    Syrah: beyond the fruit bomb | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

  • Fr. muids, measures of about five quarters. octroy, v. (Fr.), to bestow. ongles, n.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

  • Fr. muids, a measure of about five quarters. occision, n., slaughter. orage, n.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

  • They could enter fifteen _muids_ of wine, without paying duty for it, they could take eight bushels of salt in the year, from the kings stores and at the merchant's price, and give the right of _committimus_ to all ecclesiastics, after a year's residence in the town.

    Rouen, It's History and Monuments A Guide to Strangers Th��odore Licquet 1809

  • 'On muids w%ich thus untaught thiDi'dafkltng ftray»

    The Monthly Review 1774

  • St. Bernard would blush at the pomp of the church and monastery; he would ask for the library, and I know not whether he would be much edified by a tun of 800 muids, (914 1-7 hogsheads,) which almost rivals that of Heidelberg, (Melanges tires d’une

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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