beeswing

[ beez-wing ]

/ ˈbizˌwɪŋ /

a light, flaky deposit found in port and some other bottle-aged wines.

Origin of beeswing

First recorded in 1855–60; bee¹ + 's¹ + wing

Beeswing, a gauze-like film which forms on the sides of a bottle of good port.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia |Edited by Rev. James Wood
The three glasses were grouped together, all of them tinged with wine, and one of them containing some dregs of beeswing.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes |Arthur Conan Doyle
Beeswing shivered again to the new, strange weight on her back.

The Black Opal |Katharine Susannah Prichard
But Beeswing was a bred stock-horse, she knew the game and loved it.

A Tramp's Notebook |Morley Roberts

Beeswing, the film which forms on the sides of bottles which contain good old port wine.

The Slang Dictionary |John Camden Hotten

beeswing

/ (ˈbiːzˌwɪŋ) /

a light filmy crust of tartar that forms in port and some other wines after long keeping in the bottle

a port or other wine containing beeswing