white wine noun2 •Light-colored wine (usually yellow with a hint of green but not pink).In contrast to making red wine, the juice for white wine is fermented without the skins and seeds. — 2005 •(slang, no longer used) Gin.Jack Randall then impatient rose, / And said, ‘Tom's speech were just as fine / If he would call that first of goes / By that genteeler name—white wine.' — 1820 formswhite wines