Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In wine-manuf., to add (to the unfermented grape-juice) sufficient water to reduce it to a given standard of acidity, and then sufficient sugar to bring the whole to the standard of sweetness scientifically determined to be the most advantageous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb In wine making, to add water and sugar to (unfermented grape juice) so as to increase the quantity of wine produced.
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Therefore it is, that to us the knowledge of how to properly gallize our wines is still more important than to the European vintner, and the results which we can realize are yet more important.
The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines George Husmann
fbharjo commented on the word gallize
Imagine the gall of it!
March 9, 2011