stumming

Variant of stum

noun

  1. grape juice that is unfermented or only partly fermented
  2. wine revived by adding stum to it so as to produce new fermentation

Origin: Du stom, must, new wine < stom, dumb: see stumble

transitive verb stummed, stumming

to revive (wine) by adding stum
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