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What is a malmsey?

What is a malmsey? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A sweet, fortified wine made in Madeira, originally from the malvasia grape.
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That means a quart of the best malmsey in Southampton this very night, Matthew Atwood.
In the Middle Ages many Alsace wines were fortified or spiced in order to compete with the fuller bodied Mediterranean wines such as sack and malmsey.
Grapes such as terrentez, bastardo, malvasia, and especially bual and malmsey are as rich as fig juice and still exhibit balance and longevity.
Madeira is made in several layers of sweetness, from sercial to verdelho, bual and malmsey.
The family of sweet fortified wines include Port, Madeira, Malmsey, Vermouth and Muscat de Beaumes de Venise.
Who knowest but that thou mayest catch Robin Hood yet, if thou drinkest less good sack and Malmsey, and bringest down the fat about thy paunch and the dust from out thy brain.

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