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hock
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synonyms: Rhenish ???
tags: [britain] [drink]
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Definition:a British term for German white wine; sometimes it refers to white wine from the Rhine region (specifically Riesling) and sometimes to all German white wine.The term seems to have been in use in the 17th century, initially for white wines (predominantly Riesling) from the Rheingau, but in the 18th century it came to be used for any German white wine sold in Britain to convey some of the then very high prestige of Rheingau wine to (often much) lesser German wines.[...]Today "hock" is occasionally seen on bottles of (mostly cheaper) white wine sold in the United Kingdom. In Australia, hock is still known as the main ingredient of an old-fashioned summer drink called "hock, lime, and lemon".The Waterbridge candy company in England makes wine gums. One of the candies is stamped with the flavour Hock.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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The carcase of a cold chicken, a bowl of fruit, a great ham, deeply gashed to its heart of tenderest white and pink, the brown cannon ball of a cold plum-pudding, a slender Hock bottle, and a decanter of claret jostled one another for a place on this festive board.
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What would you like? There is làger beer, there is very cold water from a canvas water-bag, and there is some hock.
Louis Becke. The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton (1902)
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he continued with the clarets of Médoc, Bordeaux, and Sauterne; then to the champagnes of Ay, Hautvilliers, and Pierry; then to the hocks and moselles of Germany,
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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