DisputedIndirect, via a person or title
grenache
noun · first attested 19th century
The grape and its name may come from opposite ends of the Mediterranean.
A red wine grape widely grown in Spain and southern France, and the wine made from it.
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- DisputedCompeting explanations remain live.
- Attested
- 19th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Vernazza
- In English
grenache
One etymology takes French grenache from Italian vernaccia and so from Vernazza in the Cinque Terre. Ampelographers, though, place the variety's origin in Aragon, where it is garnacha, and it reached France by way of Spanish Roussillon. The two accounts have never been reconciled, so the toponym behind the English word remains open.
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