Vin de Bordeaux, claret.
A bottle of soda-water is called a siphon. The cheap wines ought always to be drunk with it, or with common water.
At even the cheap restaurants palatable wine may be had by paying a little extra.
Frappé, applied to liquids, means “iced.”
Caraffe frappé, iced water.
Vin frappé, iced wine.
The litre of beer is called a canette, and the half-litre a choppe.
The fifth part of a litre of wine is called a carafon, a word often used in the cheap restaurants.
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