sparkling wine

NOUN

effervescent wine

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bubbly champagne

WEAK

asti spumate spumante

Example Sentences

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That’s a good time to go through their gifts and spend a Saturday afternoon drinking sparkling wine or lemonade and writing thank-you cards.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

Each of these resorts has an undersea restaurant, where travelers can sip sparkling wine and eat crab and caviar as Rainbowfish flit by, and Blacktip sharks skulk in the distance.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025

The title refers to the pressure inside a bottle of Champagne or Champagne-method sparkling wine: up to six times the average atmospheric pressure at sea level.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

It was accompanied by English sparkling wine and Italian red and white wines.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2025

Within moments of his arrival, he finds himself with a glass of sparkling wine in hand, exchanging pleasantries with a former prima ballerina.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern