Sillery
(ˈsɪlərɪ)
Also 7 Cel(l)ery.
[f. Sillery, a village in the department of Marne, Champagne.]
A high-class wine produced in and around the village of Sillery in Champagne.
The name usually denotes a still wine known as Sillery sec or dry Sillery, formerly made from the produce of the Sillery vineyards, but now mainly obtained from the neighbouring ones of Verzenay and Mailly.
| 1680 Shadwell Woman Captain i. i, The richer Wines of Greece and Sicely, And Celery, Champaign and Burgundy. a 1688 Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Works (1752) 116 As for French kickshaws, cellery and champain,..in troth we 'ave none. 1819 Metropolis III. 182, I am sure we can muster a sandwich, and I rather think that we may get a glass of sillery with it. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 1279 Of these [Champagne wines] the still is considered the choicest, under the name of Sillery, much drank in England. 1859 H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn (1900) 80/2 His Majesty's right honourable ministers in the ante-room, drinking dry Sillery in honour of the event. |
| attrib. 1844 Thackeray in Colburn's Mag. May 28 Sillery Champagne (4 bottles), {pstlg}2. |