[Name of Sicilian city: see prec.] A luscious red muscadine wine made in Italy. See also quots. 1858, 1883.
1768. Boswell, Corsica, iii. (ed. 2), 186. At Furiani they make a white wine very like Syracuse, not quite so luscious.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Syracuse,… the name is also given to a white vin de liqueur. Ibid. (1883), Suppl., Syracuse, an old brown Marsala wine.
