low wine
noun1
In plural, Often A liquor containing about 20 percent alcohol, produced by the first distillation of wash; the first run of the still.
- A low-wines still's distilling power cannot be ascertained by the actual bulk of the distillates in strong and weak feints and spirits obtained in a given time, […].1893, John Albert Nettleton, The Manufacture of Spirit: As Conducted at the Various Distilleries of the United Kingdom, London: Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, page 125:
- In distillation of Irish whiskey the low wine fraction is split into two, a weak low wine and a strong low wine.1987, Vidar F. Larsen, “Alcohol recovery”, in David R. Berry, I. Russell, G.C. Stewart, editors, Yeast Biotechnology, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 507: