vinophile

English

Etymology

From Latin vīnum +‎ -o- +‎ -phile.

Noun

vinophile (plural vinophiles)

1. Synonym of oenophile
   • 1971 November 25, Country Life, volume 150, page 1468, column 3:

     If no Franco-vinophile is likely to lose his allegiance to French wines after a visit to Piedmont, it should at least widen his horizons in one of the most attractive wine-producing areas in Europe.

   • 1979, Morley Marvels: Memoirs, Notes, and Essays of the Famed Actor, Raconteur, Collector, Hotel Guest, and Man of Leisure, A. S. Barnes and Company, →ISBN, page 37:

     Apparently the entire family are keen – if amateur – vinophiles, and the carafe placed on our table was not only, we were assured, home bottled, but also home brewed.

   • 1989, Thomas Pinney, “7. The Spread of Commercial Winegrowing”, in A History of Wine in America: From the Beginnings to Prohibition, University of California Press, →ISBN, “The Missouri Germans”, page 174:

     The early dominance of the French in the Mississippi Valley meant that many experiments by small communities and by individuals of that vinophile race—clerical as well as lay—were certainly made with both native and imported grapes.

   • 2008, Sheila Ravenscroft, “Wine-tasting with Walters”, in The Olivetti Chronicles: Three Decades of Life and Music: John Peel‎^[1], Corgi Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 459:

     My own favourites were a 1976 Wintricher Ohligsberg Riesling Auslese and a 1977 Bernkastler Badstube Kabinett, and by the time I had sampled plenty of these and compared them, for scientific purposes only naturally, with a dozen or so other wines, I found myself saying, in all seriousness, that I found another wine – I think it was the ’76 Zeltinger Himmelreich Riesling Auslese – rather ‘leafy’. I do appreciate that ‘leafy’ is not a part of the vinophile’s largely inaccessible vocabulary, but I knew what I meant when I said it.

   • 2009, Debra Salonen, “Chapter Two”, in Picture-Perfect Mom, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 33:

     Morgan didn’t drink, but Morgana owned an extensive wine cellar and knew all the right terms of a vinophile.

   • 2010, Jim Nelson, “3. The Banquet”, in The Red Island, iUniverse, →ISBN, pages 9–10:

     Jacoby, however, thoroughly enjoyed the vinophile’s ritual, eagerly volunteering to sample the current offering, sniffing the cork, swirling the precious vintage, inserting his ample nose in the goblet, and finally sipping the nectar, eyes closed in a mock-erotic reverie.

   • 2011, Frank Camorra, Richard Cornish, “Day Trips from Barcelona”, in Movida’s Guide to Barcelona, The Miegunyah Press, →ISBN, page 266, column 2:

     Owner is Joan Murillo, an unashamed vinophile who has decent wines from 2€ a glass to more finessed wines for around 4€.

Translations

oenophile — see oenophile

French

Etymology

From vin +‎ -o- +‎ -phile.

Noun

vinophile m or f by sense (plural vinophiles)

1. Synonym of œnophile
   • 1843, Courses faites à différentes époques dans le Valais et les montagnes avoisinantes, Lausanne, page 52:

     Après avoir dégusté avec toute l’attention et la gravité d’un vinophile, comparé et recomparé, monsieur le docteur déclara que le vin de la bouteille à long col était le meilleur et que celui de la plus petite bouteille était le moindre des quatre.

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   • 1972, Paris Match, page 32:

     Le prix auquel ils sont obligé de les vendre ne leur permettra de les remplacer. L’avenir des vinophiles est sombre...

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   • 2013, Tom Vigeant, “Avant-propos: À qui s’adresse ce guide?”, in Dégustations entre amis: Découvrir, partager et comprendre le vin, Québec Amérique, →ISBN, “Qu’est-ce que ce guide a que les autres n’ont pas?”:

     Avec ce guide, j’ai donc voulu offrir aux vinophiles un outil pratique, amusant et simple à utiliser qui mise sur une démarche axée sur l’expérimentation, laquelle puise sa force dans la convivialité du vin et dans la place d’honneur qui lui revient à la table.

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Further reading

• “vinophile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

vinophile

1. inflection of vinophil:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular