solera
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish solera.
Noun
solera (countable and uncountable, plural soleras)
- (uncountable) A method of producing sherry in which small amounts of younger wines stored in an upper tier of casks are systematically blended with the more mature wine in the casks below
- (countable) A large wine cask, on the bottom tier in this system, that contains the oldest wine
Anagrams
- AOLers, Laroes, Larose, Loeras, arsole, orales, roseal
Spanish
Etymology
suelo + -era
Noun
solera f (plural soleras)
- solera
- vintage (wine)
- (figuratively) character, history
Further reading
- “solera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014