Hock (wine)

Hock is a British term for German white wine.

[1] The word hock is short for the obsolete word hockamore, an alteration of "Hochheimer"[citation needed], derived from the name of the town of Hochheim am Main in Germany.

[2] Over the years, hock-shaped bottles have come to signify sweet, cheap wine in general.

[1] It seems probable that Queen Victoria's visit in 1850 to Hochheim (in Rheingau) and its vineyards during harvest time contributed to the continued use of the term.

Supposedly by HOCHheim becoming shortened to HOCH and the hard German CH becoming written as CK to aid English speakers in its pronunciation.