Definition of "chambertin" [cham•ber•tin]

• A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy. (noun)

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• "Clos de Vogeot: Similar to chambertin, and often called the king of burgandy."
• "Mamma Gerard remembered that she had a few bottles -- five or six -- of old chambertin in the cellar, and you could not have prevented the excellent woman from taking her key and taper at once, and going for those old bottles covered with cobwebs and dust, that they might drink to the health of the triumphant one."
• "Then he poured out the chambertin, and once more all heads became excited, and the conversation fell, as was inevitable, upon the subject of women."