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A name, title or designation.
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A geographical indication for wine that describes its geographic origin.
Examples of appellation in a Sentence
It was he who described the appellation D.D.
The appellation then became general, and occurs frequently in Ammianus Marcellinus.
According to the Hebrew consonants it might simply be read "the king" (melek), an appellation for the supreme deity of a Semitic state or tribe.
Captain John Smith, in his History of Virginia (1626), at p. 27 speaks of "Martins, Powlecats, Weesels and Minkes," showing that the animal must at that time have been distinguished by a vernacular appellation from its congeners.
South of the Meuse, and in the district distinguished by the appellation " Between Sambre and Meuse," the level is still greater, and the whole of the province of Luxemburg is above 500 ft., with altitudes up to 1650 ft.
I must also confess that I am fond of the sparkling wines that bear the appellation Saumur AC.
You can Search for your favorite wine, or use the appellation lists to browse their portfolio.
Whatever may have been his real name he was always known by this appellation from his homely garments which he always wore.
Do not confuse Corton-Charlemagne, however, with the red wine appellation of Corton, which sits lower down the same hillside.
The appellation " Serbo-Croatian " for the literary language of both nations now finds more favour.
Marine to a South American bird which, though long before known and described by the earlier writers - Nieremberg, Marcgrav and Piso (the last of whom has a recognizable but rude figure of it) - had been without any distinctive scientific appellation.
Most of the less nomad tribesmen are Sanjurani and Toki, the sardars jealously claiming the former appellation.
The ancestors of this gentleman have for ages obtained the distinguished appellation of Kings of Patterdale.
The project has acquired the appellation, the Square Kilometer Array.
How else to account for the distinctive appellation " Cthugha " which he gave his program?
But, Chateau Latour lies within Pauillac, which has its own commune appellation, AOC Pauillac.
Adopting a new appellation was simple enough; developing this harsh land would be more difficult.
This gate is, however, mentioned in 1390, with its present appellation.
The progress of this change cannot be followed in detail, but there can be little doubt that the extension of the Roman arms, and the gradual union of the nations of the peninsula under one dominant power, would contribute to the introduction, or rather would make the necessity felt, for the use of one general appellation.
Dacier, however, and others who adhere to the Christian view of the miracle, admit that the appellation of "Thundering" or "Lightning" (KEpavv000Xos, or KepavvoOpos) was given to the legion because there was a figure of lightning on their shields.
Winemaking is highly regulated and only wineries in specifically outlined regions are allowed to label their wine with that particular appellation.
The Grand Cru appellation and vineyard yields distinctive wines believed to be some of the world's finest Chardonnays.
The French government created the Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru appellation under the appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) system in 1937.
Only white Burgundies come from Corton-Charlemagne; the appellation makes no red wines.
French law dictates what types of grapes can be blended into wines with an appellation designation.
Another well-known wine from the Burgundy region comes from the Beaujolais appellation.
Calatayud is a relatively obscure appellation (albeit gaining more recognition recently for its New World style reds) located in the Aragon region in northeast Spain.
Costières de Nîmes is a French appellation that straddles the southern Rhône Valley and is part of the ill-defined the Languedoc-Roussillon.
With such a diversity in soil and climate, you can find more wine grape varieties grown in Sonoma County than in any other appellation in the entire world.
Scott Harvey helped put Amador County wine on California's appellation map.
A lot of times, instead of buying the more expensive appellation wines (such as Alexander, Napa, or Dry Creek Valleys), I go for the less expensive county designates or even just good 'ol "California" on the label.
An appellation is a designated wine growing region that is governed by specific laws and rules.
Sauternes is an appellation in the wine-growing region of Bordeaux.
There are a total of five communes in this appellation including Barsac, Bommes, Farques and Preignac.
These rules of governance are known as the AOC or Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée.
Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée - Wines that have the highest rating and bear labels with information on where the wine was produced, the grape variety and the winemaking method used.
The result is Black Box - a line of high quality vintage and appellation specific wines from wine regions all around the world.
The appellation has strict regulations that cover all aspects of the growing, cultivating and production process.
A newspaper reporter subsequently dubbed the creature as"The Mothman" and the appellation stuck.
The new town received from Garay the name of Ciudad de la Santissira Trinidad, while its port retained the old appellation of Santa Maria de Buenos Aires.
The Gallo-Celtic tribes bore the general appellation of Belgae, and among these the Nervii, inhabiting the district between the Scheldt and the Sambre were at the date of Caesar's invasion, 57 B.C., the most warlike and important.
The peoples within the frontier had been transformed into Romanized provincials; outside, the various tribes had become merged in the common appellation of Frisians.
Cisalpine Gaul, including the whole of northern Italy, still constituted a province, an appellation never applied to Italy itself.
The aborigines, Sheng fan, or " wild savages," deserved the appellation in some respects, for they lived by the chase and had little knowledge even of husbandry; while the Chinese themselves, uneducated labourers, acknowledged no right except that of might.
Organic Chemistry While inorganic chemistry was primarily developed through the study of minerals - a connexion still shown by the French appellation chimie minerale - organic chemistry owes its origin to the investigation of substances occurring in the vegetable and animal organisms. The quest of the alchemists for the philosopher's stone, and the almost general adherence of the iatrochemists to the study of the medicinal characters and preparation of metallic compounds, stultified in some measure the investigation of vegetable and animal products.
From the celebrity of this cemetery as an object of pilgrimage its name became extensively known, and in entire forgetfulness of the origin of the word, catacumbae came to be regarded as a generic appellation for all burial-places of the same kind.
It is only since the 11th or 12th century that Kabbalah has become the exclusive appellation for the renowned system of theosophy which claims to have been transmitted uninterruptedly by the mouths of the patriarchs and prophets ever since the creation of the first man.
It is not likely, as many scholars have thought, that Akkad was ever used geographically as a distinctive appellation for northern Babylonia, or that the name Sumer denoted the southern part of the land, because kings who ruled only over Southern Babylonia used the double title "king of Sumer and Akkad," which was also employed by northern rulers who never established their sway farther south than Nippur, notably the great Assyrian conqueror Tiglath pileser III.
Siena is divided into seventeen contrade (wards), each with a distinct appellation and a chapel and flag of its own; and every year ten of these contrade, chosen by lot, send each one horse to compete for the prize palio or banner.
Daunou, this appellation cannot be traced back further than the first half of the 15th century.