Gallize

Quick meaning: Gallize is a verb meaning (transitive, wine, dated) To add sugar and water to (unfermented grape juice) so as to increase the quantity of wine produced.

Meaning

(transitive, wine, dated) To add sugar and water to (unfermented grape juice) so as to increase the quantity of wine produced.

Example Sentences

All wine, Moselle and Necktar wines—in fact, all German wines shipped to America—are gallized, and exactly this circumstance has created a very important market in America for these wines.

At the South Carolina State Fair, held at Columbia, wines were exhibited from other grapes made by the same process, with this difference—that some of them were not Gallized, and no sugar added.

As a wine grape its unequaled bouquet is the principal recommendation. It is deficient in sugar, and the juice is usually gallized, fortified by the addition of alcohol, or otherwise manipulated.

I weigh the must by Oechsle's must scale, and add white sugar to it until it weighs 100 degrees, then I gallise it by one-fourth of water in which sugar is dissolved to the same standard of the must.

Word Forms

• gallizes
• gallizing
• gallized
• gallise

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vinify, vintage, fortify, vint, champagnize, saccharize.

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