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Stum   Listen
noun
Stum  n.  
1.
Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must. "Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine." "And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause."
2.
Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must.





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"Stum" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Hamburgh. In order to strengthen the natural body of claret wine, and to render it capable of bearing the transition of the sea, the first and second growths are allowed from ten to fifteen gallons of good Alicant wine to every hogshead, with one quart of stum.[8] The casks are then filled up and bunged down. They are then ranged three tier high from one end of the cellar to the other, each tier about eighteen inches, with two stanchions of stout pine plank, ...
— The American Practical Brewer and Tanner • Joseph Coppinger


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