Feminine

Auslese

Meaning

  1. (feminine) selection, choice, pick
  2. (feminine) Auslese (lit.: selected harvest). A (usually white) wine made from selected grapes which are fully ripe or even botrytized and purposefully harvested very late, so as to be extra sweet.
  3. (feminine) a quality category in German wine classification

Frequency

42k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈaʊsˌleːzə/
Etymology

aus (“out of”) + Lese (“harvest”) (obviously cognate with lesen (“to read, select, pick”), which yields a high-quality connotation)

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