rumney

Alternative forms

 * romney

Etymology
Derived from, at that time a common name for Greece and the southern Balkans, the lands of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Noun

 * 1) A form of Greek wine popular in England and Europe during the 14th to 16th centuries.
 * , New York, 2001, p.223:
 * All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like