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White wine

White wine is an alcoholic wine made from fermented grapes. It has floral aromas and pairs with cheese.

  • Contains alcohol

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Drinks
Made from
Grape
Part used
Fruit
Cooked most in
Europe, The Americas
Top country
France
White wine, prepared

Photo: Shixart1985 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use white wine

Cooking with it

Use white wine to soften meat or deglaze cooking juices.

Goes well with

Flavour

Taste and texture

Aroma

  • Floral

Around the world

Where white wine is cooked

9 dishes in the catalogue use white wine. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list white wine among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. The 1700s · France

    In the 18th century, inexpensive dry white wine became fashionable in Paris.

On the table

Dishes made with white wine

7 of the 9 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Rabbit with chocolate

    Spain

  • Bouillabaisse

    France

  • Amatriciana sauce

    Italy

  • Mariscal

    Chile

  • Moules farcies à la sétoise

    France

  • Palourdes marinières

    Spain

  • Mussels marinière

    Belgium, France

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include white wine.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: white wine in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, poultry, shellfish, other animal.
Alcohol
Contains

Family

Related forms

Made from
grape (fermented)
A kind of
wine

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What white wine is called

Names in 62 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    vino blanco

  • French

    vin blanc

  • Italian

    vino bianco · bianco

  • Portuguese

    vinho branco

  • German

    Weißwein

  • Dutch

    witte wijn

  • Greek

    λευκό κρασί

  • Turkish

    beyaz şarap

  • Russian

    белое вино

  • Polish

    białe wino

  • Arabic

    نبيذ أبيض

  • Persian

    شراب سفید

Show all 62 languages

  • Afrikaans

    witwyn

  • Armenian

    սպիտակ գինի

  • Asturian

    vinu blanco

  • Bashkir

    аҡ шарап

  • Basque

    ardo zuri

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    белае віно

  • Breton

    gwin gwenn

  • Bulgarian

    бяло вино

  • Burmese

    ဝိုင်ဖြူ

  • Cantonese

    白葡萄酒 · 白酒

  • Catalan

    vi blanc

  • Cebuano

    puti nga bino

  • Chinese

    白葡萄酒

  • Chuvash

    Шурă эрех

  • Cornish

    gwin gwynn

  • Croatian

    bijelo vino

  • Czech

    bílé víno

  • Danish

    hvidvin

  • Egyptian Arabic

    نبيت ابيض

  • Esperanto

    blanka vino

  • Faroese

    hvítvín

  • Finnish

    valkoviini

  • Galician

    viño branco

  • Georgian

    თეთრი ღვინო

  • Hebrew

    יין לבן

  • Hungarian

    fehérbor

  • Indonesian

    Anggur putih

  • Irish

    fíon bán

  • Japanese

    白ワイン · 白葡萄酒

  • Javanese

    anggur putih

  • Kazakh

    ақ шарап

  • Korean

    화이트 와인

  • Latvian

    baltvīns

  • Luxembourgish

    wäisse Wäin

  • Macedonian

    бело вино

  • Malay

    Wain putih

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    hvitvin

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    kvitvin

  • nrm

    bllaunc vin

  • Romanian

    vin alb

  • Serbian

    бијело вино

  • Shan

    ဝၢႆႇၽိူၵ်ႇ

  • Simplified Chinese

    白葡萄酒

  • Slovak

    biele víno

  • Slovenian

    belo vino

  • Swedish

    vitt vin · vitvin

  • Swiss German

    Wysswy

  • Ukrainian

    біле вино

  • Vietnamese

    rượu vang trắng

  • Welsh

    gwin gwyn

  • Zhuang

    Laeujhau

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q10210

Photos

Photo: Shixart1985 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons