It is at Dax that we leave the main line, and instead of running north for Bordeaux and the land of clarets, turn south-east to Orthez and Pau, and the Gaves, and the Pyrenees.
"Prose Idylls"
Charles Kingsley
The clarets brought to the English market are frequently prepared for it by the wine-growers by mixing together several Bordeaux wines, or by adding to them a portion of some other wines; but in France the pure wines are carefully preserved distinct.
"The Book of Household Management"
Mrs. Isabella Beeton
To a man accustomed to colonial wines, clarets and hocks seem thin and sour.
"Town Life in Australia 1883"
R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny