RHONE WINE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Rhone wine

... modest supper of sandwiches and Cotes du Rhone wine, in an inside corner of the Cafe des Negociants—it was all the cafe could offer, and besides she swore to a plentiful dinner—they discussed their respective forlorn positions. Adroitly she tacked away from her own concerns towards his particular dilemma. If ...

— The Mountebank • William J. Locke

... resolution of his doubts; even wondered that he had not foreseen the obvious and conclusive answer. His faith in the Doctor was a stout piece of goods. Desprez was inclined to be a sheet in the wind's eye after dinner, especially after Rhone wine, his favourite weakness. He would then remark on the warmth of his feeling for Anastasie, and with inflamed cheeks and a loose, flustered smile, debate upon all sorts of topics, and be feebly and indiscreetly witty. But the adopted stable-boy would not permit himself to entertain a doubt that savoured ...

— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson