Wine gate

Wine gate

Wine gate can refer to:

*The German Wine Gate, a stone gate on the German Wine Route
*The "Puerta del Vino" (literally "Wine Gate"), an entrance gate in the Alhambra in Spain
**"La Puerta del Vino" (The Wine Gate), one of Debussy's Preludes named for the Alhambra gate
*The "Porta del Vino" (lit. "Wine Gate"), a gate inside Bolzano's cathedral in Italy
*"Winegate," any of several scandals involving wine, especially the adulteration of wine. The "-gate" suffix derives from the American Watergate scandal


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