white wine
Any wine that’s made from light-skinned grapes or from dark-skinned grapes whose juice doesn’t contain any extracted color (which happens when the juice is immediately separated from the grape skins, seeds, and pulp). A white wine’s hue may range from almost no color to very pale yellow to golden yellow to amber. As white wines age, they tend to darken.
The New Wine Lovers Companion, 2nd Edition, by Ron Herbst and Sharon Tyler Herbst. Copyright © (1) 2003, 1995 by Ron Herbst and Sharon Tyler Herbst. Reprinted by arrangement with Barron's Educational Series, Inc.