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adj. Of, indicating, or characterizing a variety, especially a biological variety.

n. A wine made principally from one variety of grape and carrying the name of that grape.

adj. Pertaining to a distinct variety of organism.

adj. Made from a single specific variety (especially of grapes in wine).

n. A wine made primarily from or exclusively from a single variety of grape, which carries the name of that grape.

n. By extension, a coffee made primarily from or exclusively from a single variety of coffee bean.

adj. Of or pertaining to a variety; characterizing a variety; constituting a variety, in distinction from an individual or species.

In petrography, in the quantitative classification of igneous rocks (see rock), having the character of or producing a variety of a mode.

In biology, having the character of a zoölogical or botanical variety; subspecific, or of the character of a subspecies; racial, with reference to geographical variation; of or pertaining to varieties: variational: as, varietal characters; varietal differences or distinctions. See variability, 2. variation, 8, and variety, 6.

n. a wine made principally from one grape and carrying the name of that grape

"Hence, the varietal is sometimes called the "holy grail"; other times, it's the "heartbreak grape.""

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