Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Composed of, pertaining to, or resembling grapes: as, a grapy flavor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Composed of, or resembling, grapes.
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- adjective Composed of, or resembling,
grapes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a taste like that of grapes
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Examples
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As vivid gouts of Dago Red saturated a nearby snowbank, turning it a deep, grapy purple, a cameraman from Pathé News gave a local man called “Necktie” Sensiba fifty cents to drop to his knees and eat the snow.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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As vivid gouts of Dago Red saturated a nearby snowbank, turning it a deep, grapy purple, a cameraman from Pathé News gave a local man called “Necktie” Sensiba fifty cents to drop to his knees and eat the snow.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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It is a hardy variety with some bunch-rot disease resistance, but can easily result in foxy, grapy flavors if not picked early enough.
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And when Brookie lets the poor thing loose, it galumphs to the mirror and backs up to see its grapy leg.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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The 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon Private Reserve was grapy, un-evolved, and primary when I tasted it.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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The huge, opaque 1983 Unico Reserva is fat and grapy, with massive flavor concentration; an expansive, sweet, jammy, black currant fruitiness; spicy oak; and a long, robust, spicy finish.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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Although it remains unevolved and somewhat grapy, everything is present for a fabulous evolution of two decades or more.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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Displaying the darker aromas and flavors typical for a Claude Dugat Charmes-Chambertin, the 2000 offers plummy black-berry scents as well as a grapy, black cherry–dominated personality.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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While still young and grapy, this 1998 is loaded with potential.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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Small estates prefer to do malolactic in barrel because they believe it integrates the wood better and gives the wine a more forward sweetness early in life, making the young, grapy wine more appealing to wine journalists/critics who descend on Bordeaux every spring to taste the newest vintage.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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