cuvée

From French cuvée, from cuve (“vat, tank”).

• IPA^(key): /kuˈveɪ/

cuvée (plural cuvées)

1. Wine produced from a mixture of several grape varieties.
2. (especially of champagne) The first (and highest quality) grape juice to be produced, from a given batch of gently pressed grapes.

From cuve (“vat; tank”).

cuvée f (plural cuvées)

1. the quantity of wine in a fermentation vessel
2. a cuvée (blend of wine)
3. vintage
4. (colloquial) batch, group; group of students who celebrate graduation the same year

• (vintage): millésime

• première cuvée
• seconde cuvée
• troisième cuvée

• “cuvée” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• vécue