The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Cahors

a city in southwestern France, on the Lot River (a tributary of the Garonne). Population, 21,000 (1968). Cahors is the administrative center of Lot Department. It is the center of a grape-growing and wine-making region. (A sweet red wine gotits name from the city.) The Cathedral of Saint-Etienne (12thcentury) is located there.

Cahors

a dessert wine made from red grapes (Cabernet, Saperavi), and named after the French city of Cahors, despite thefact that the region produces more white wines than red. Aunique aspect of the processing is heating the pulp to 45°-50°Cand higher or heating entire grape clusters to 80°-90°C by steam, dry air, or immersion for two to three minutes in boiling wateror must. The better Cahors of the USSR, with an alcohol contentof 16 percent by volume and a 16-20 percent sugar content, aremade in the Crimea (“Iuzhnoberezhnyi”), Armenia (“Arta-shak”), Azerbaijan (“Shemakha”), and Uzbekistan (“Uzbeki-stan”).

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Yonder towers, between the wood and the hill, mark the town of Cahors, and beyond it is the land of France.

"We shall follow the Lot until we come to Cahors, and then cross the marches into Villefranche," said Sir Nigel.

`Angel' in Cahors, the same to be repaid to me or my heirs if any harm come to me or my goods."

It is not very far to Cahors, for surely I see the cathedral towers against the sky-line; but I have heard much of this Roger Clubfoot, and the more I hear the less do I wish to look upon his face.

Par l'ordre du Senechal de Castelnau, et de l'Echevin de Cahors, servantes fideles du tres vaillant et tres puissant Edouard, Prince de Galles et d'Aquitaine.

There is one, Francois Villet, at Cahors, who will send me wine-casks for my cloth-bales, so to Cahors I will go, though all the robber-knights of Christendom were to line the roads like yonder poplars."

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"As you please, sir," said Caderousse, who, anxious not to lose the present opportunity of finding a customer for one of the few bottles of Cahors still remaining in his possession, hastily raised a trap-door in the floor of the apartment they were in, which served both as parlor and kitchen.

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I know I knocked Cahors Malbec (or Auxerrois or Cot as it's known here) the other day, but that was with the traditional turkey dinner.

Get it right for the leftovers.

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