Falernian

Falernian (comparative more Falernian, superlative most Falernian)

1. Of, produced in, or pertaining to Mount Falernus, in Italy.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 195:

     Sandbanks, marshes, forests, savages, - precious little to eat fit for a civilised man, nothing but Thames water to drink. No Falernian wine here, no going ashore.

Falernian (uncountable)

1. A wine produced from Aglianico grapes on the slopes of Mount Falernus, much esteemed in Ancient Rome.
   • 1863, G[eorge] J[ohn] Whyte-Melville, “Red Falernian”, in The Gladiators: A Tale of Rome and Judæa. […], volume I (Eros), London: Longman, Green, Longmans, Roberts, & Green, →OCLC, page 220:

     What’s a Helen of Troy compared to a flask of this red Falernian? Why good wine gets better the longer you keep it, while woman loses her flavour year by year.

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