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Example sentences for: burgundy

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I have known wine tasters who say they can distinguish in a sip of Burgundy the intensity of autumn sunshine that warmed a particular slope of the Côte d'Or a decade ago.
Philip of Burgundy began to bring some semblance of unification to the Low Countries (the region which roughly translates to the Netherlands and Belgium) in the 1420s.
The plains and plateaus of Picardy in the north and Alsace to the east lend themselves to large-scale agriculture before ending in the gentler, rolling green fields of Normandy to the west and the vineyards of Burgundy that herald the beginnings of the south.
But the Greeks developed few contacts with the interior beyond a little commerce in olives and wine with the Celts of Burgundy.
I fear that Dr. Richards did not have us in mind when he set to work, for he omitted to include such words as tomato, bathroom, cutlet, cauliflower , and railway station . Yet let no one say he was not a mundane man, for he gives us the Welsh for port, sherry, whisky, brandy, burgundy, claret , and even Rhenish wine . And do you know that there are ten words in Welsh for fashion ? But none, apparently, for tomato, bathroom, cutlet , etc.