The wine still has no fancy appellation status (the label reads Vin de Pays, "country wine"), but Mas de Daumas Gassac is poured in some rather swell dining spots across Europe and the U.S., and wines like the elegant, currant- and black-cherry-inflected 1999 bottling ($35) don't need no stinking appellations.
The tract on appellationes is very short: appellation is considered no more than a special case of restriction, i.e., the restricted supposition brought about by a present-tense verb.
"We are an appellation unto ourselves," Mr. LaGrande said.
In Cambridge University, philosophy is called "moral science"—and there is no oxymoron in this appellation.
Prior to European contact, there were no unified states in New Caledonia, and no single self-appellation used to refer to its inhabitants.
Conservatives, by contrast, have evinced no such reluctance about their appellation.
Show the same mercy to the Star Daisy, whose banal appellation does it no favors, either.
No equivalent distinction existed for men, with appellation monsieur used universally.
Aside from the handful of surprising absentees – you might reasonably have expected Sleaford Mods to be in there, likewise, folk singer Richard Dawson's lauded Nothing Important or LoneLady's brilliant second album Hinterland – there's no mainstream pop, unless you use that appellation to describe Florence.
Certainly in France, with its strict rules on product quality (such as AOC, the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée), adding water to wine would supposedly be an absolute no-no.
