Meaning of stum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from Dutch.
2. Unfermented grape juice; must.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
3. Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“1620s, Ben Jonson, Leges Convivales Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine.”

“And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.”

“Drink ev'ry letter on't in stum, And make it brisk champaign become.”

“To each hogshead of genuine Bordeaux wine, there are four gallons of Benicarlo, half a gallon of stum wine, and a small quantity of Hermitage added, which mixture undergoes a slight fermentation, and is then exported under the name of claret.”

“But stum wine was not intended for drinking.”

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