Hartley Coleridge, "Young and His Contemporaries," circa 1849 Scots were they both by temper as by birth, And both were racy of their native earth.
For instance, an apple might be said to be "rich with racy juice."įrom the notion that the soil gives the grapes used in racy wines their distinctive qualities, racy began being used to describe people or things characteristic of their birthplace or place of origin. In time, racy came to describe other juices having a pure, natural flavor. Some curious Pallates have called it Vin Greco, rich and racy Canary, not knowing what name to give it, for its excellency. In the 17th century, the adjective racy was uncorked to describe such a wine having a taste indicative of the origin and natural characteristics of its grapes. Philip Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, 1633 Giovanni Botero, Relations of the Most Famous Kingdomes and Common-wealths, 1630Ī pipe Of rich Canarie … Is it of the right race? The golden Mountaine … which beares a wine of a more delicate and rich race than the Canaries, and inestimable plenty too. In the 16th century, race not only referred to a group of people, animals, or plants having a common ancestry but to a particular class of wine with a characteristic flavor supposedly influenced by the soil in which the grapes used in making it grew.
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