low wine
Noun
Meaning
low wine (countable and uncountable, plural low wines)
(often in the plural) A liquor containing about 20 percent alcohol, produced by the first distillation of wash; the first run of the still.
Examples
In the first, large part of water and solids is removed from the base, obtaining so-called "low wine", basically a concentrated wine with 28–30% ABV.
The weak portion on the end, "tail", is discarded along with the head, and they are generally mixed with another batch of low wine, thereby entering the distillation cycle again.