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MALMSEY

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 494 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MALMSEY  , a strong sweet

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wine, originally made at Monemvasia (Gr . Moveµ3avia), Napoli di
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Malvasia, in the Morea,
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Greece . The name of the
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place was corrupted in Med .
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Lat. into malmasia, whence the
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English
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form of the word . The corruption malvasia gives the O . Fr. malvesie, from which comes the alternative English form " malvoisie." The wine is now made not only in Greece but also in
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Spain,
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Madeira and the
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Azores .

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