The prosperous, industrialized northern Italians have always dismissed the southerners' rustic wines, made from unknown indigenous grapes.

A huge green salad, rustic red wine and light fruit dessert or fresh fruit and biscotti make a satisfying fall meal.

If these "flaws" make the wine a bit too rustic for some critics' tastes, they are prized by others.

When fermented without cooling, it makes retsina or rustic unresinated wines that complement Mediterranean dishes well.

Pais produces a thin bodied, rustic red wine that typically has a light brown coloring.

An honest, brawny, rustic wine from a respected old Mendocino County wine family.

Mr. Asimov found them quite drinkable and softer than he expected, and, in fact, we were all expecting more rustic wines than we got.

Tavira's grapes produce a good, rustic wine consumed all over the Algarve.

The Elbling grape is the most commonly planted here producing a thin, rustic wine with high acidity.

Bernstein zinfandels were big, rustic, high-alcohol wines.