Attack
A technical term for the first impression the wine makes as it reaches your palate, distinguished (in time sequence) from 'middle' or 'mid-palate' and 'finish' or 'aftertaste.' ...
Attack: The first impression a wine makes on the palate.
Bacchus: Another name for Dionysus, the Greek and Roman God of Wine.
attack:The initially impression of the intensity of the wine once tasted. Another wanky term which should be attacked! Favoured Synonym: initial impression.
Attack
The first impression you get when you taste a wine. A wine’s attack is usually sensed in the front of your mouth, especially at the tip of your tongue, which is usually the first place the wine touches.
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ATTACK
The initial impact of a wine. If not strong or flavorful, the wine is considered "feeble". "Feeble" wines are sometimes encountered among those vinified in a year where late rain just before harvest diluted desirable grape content.
Attack (see also light, thin below)
A tasting term for the initial impact of a wine in the mouth.
Austere
A tasting term for dominant, tart-edged flavours, dry, relatively hard and acidic wines that seem to lack roundness.
attack
the strong first impression, one that jumps out of the glass
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The Attack Phase, is the initial impression that the wine makes on your palate. The Attack is comprised of four pieces of the wine puzzle: alcohol content, tannin levels, acidity and residual sugar.
Attacked by powdery mildew and downy mildew, rot and tolerant and good resistance to spring frosts. The production is inconsistent, often because of casting and millerandage phenomena of the bunch.
So Osama's gonna attack us with the common cold virus?
The same news report said pacifist Japan was threatening to attack North Korea if Kim Jong-il so much as hiccupped at Tokyo.
Have a plan of attack: white wines first, then reds, and finally sparkling and ports. Stick with this order and select only a few within each range. Do not double back!
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attackIn wine tasting, the first impression of a wine on the mouth. Usually perceived as a first "hit" on the tip of the tongue and at the front of mouth.
Says itself of a wine showing too much force and attacking the mucous membranes unpleasantly.
AIGREUR (SOURNESS)
High acid character, together with a particular odor pointing out that of the vinegar.
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Phylloxera A microscopic insect that kills grape vines by attacking their roots.
If it attacks unripe or damaged grapes, it is a disaster. But this particular cloud has a silver lining.
Harvesting was done at the end of the attack, when the grapes were showing evident and "preoccupying" signs of the effects of the mold.
Las Brisas has a wide open, ripe array of fruity and grassy aromas that attack the nose on first sniff.
There are many pests and diseases that can attack and kill grape vines. Red spiders, moth grubs and various mites, bugs and beetles can all prey on the plant above ground.
Anise, chocolate, ripe plum, and eucalyptus dominate the attack, which is formidable. Some like their wines as strong as cough syrup (like me) some don't. This is not for the timid. Texture is thick and chewy.
The fungus that attacks the grape skins under specific climatic conditions (usually alternating periods of moisture and sunny weather). It causes the grape to become superconcentrated because it causes a natural dehydration.
Botrytis cinerea: The fungus that attacks the grape skins under specific climatic conditions (usually alternating periods of moisture and sunny weather). It causes the grape to become superconcentrated because it causes a natural dehydration.
Botrytis cinerea - A mould that attacks certain grapes, producing honeyed sweet wines like Sauternes and late-harvest Rieslings.
Bouquet - The complex of aromas that develops with age in fine wines; young wines have aroma, not bouquet.
Another technical term (see also "attack" and "finish" or "aftertaste") for the sequence of sensations as the wine hits your palate.
"Botrytis" or "noble rot" is a fungus that attacks grapes under certain temperature and humidity conditions. The fungus extracts moisture from the grape causing it to shrivel and increase its relative sugar content.
Once immersed in wine, fungal spores in the lenticels of natural wine corks attack chlorine compounds that were used to bleach the cork tree bark for cosmetic purposes. T.C.A.
Botrytis cinerea: Latin name for one of many molds which attacks grapes on the vine. Under the proper conditions and at the proper time, this mold will often have a beneficial affect upon the resulting wine's quality.
A fungus that attacks the skin of grapes, causing water to evaporate and thus increasing the sugar content.
These cuttings carried a species of root louse called phylloxera vastatrix which attacks and feeds on the vine roots and leaves. Phylloxera is indigenous to the Mississippi River Valley and was unknown outside North America at the time.
The cause of Noble Rot, Botrytis cinerea is a fungus which, under suitable conditions, attacks grapes on the vines, leaving them shrivelled and dehydrated.
Phylloxera: A tiny louse that attacks the root system of wine grape vines, responsible for killing over three million acres of vines in Europe in the 1800s. Grafting to resistant rootstock is the only known way to combat this pest.
Phylloxera: Phylloxera is a vine louse, which attacks grape vine with a devastating effect.
Phylloxera: Tiny aphids or root lice that attack Vitis vinifera roots. The disease was widespread in both Europe and California during the late 19th century, and returned to California in the 1980s.
Potent: Intense and powerful.
(Phylloxera vastatrix). Parasite of vines which attack their roots. The existence of the phylloxera in the ground forces vine growers to graft the Vitis vinifera onto American vine rootstock, which is resistant to this pest.
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" A beneficial mold or fungus that attacks grapes under certain climatic conditions and causes them to shrivel, deeply concentrating the flavors, sugar and acid.
Phylloxera Vastatrix: A tiny insect that attacks the roots of vinifera vines, injecting them with poisonous saliva. At the end of the 19th century it changed the face of European viticulture forever.
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This is a good mold that attacks grapes causing them to shrivel up. As a result, the grape juice has a higher sugar content and the flavor of the dessert wine made from this juice is more concentrated, complex and delicious.
Botrytis cinerea
"Noble Rot." A mold that attacks certain grapes, drying them out like raisins and producing intensely honeyed flavors in wines such as Sauternes and late-harvest Rieslings.
Living organism, which attacks the parasite fungi on the vines.
Badacsony :
Hungarian vineyard, situated near Balaton lake.
The fungus botrytis cinerea attacks ripe grapes, causing them to shrivel and become concentrated and sweet. The juice of grapes affected with this "noble rot" is used to make some of the world's great sweet wines, including Sauternes ...
Noble rot: A fungal infection (botrytis cinerea) that attacks ripe grapes and which helps make some of the great sweet wines.
Nose: The smell or bouquet of a wine. To 'nose' a wine is to smell it.
Phylloxera - A root louse that attacks the roots of Vitus Vinifera grapes causing the death of the vine over a period of several years.
Pips - Grape seeds.
BOTRYTIS CINEREA: Noble Rot. A beneficial mold or fungus that attacks grapes under certain climatic conditions and causes them to shrivel, deeply concentrating the flavors, sugar and acid.
Claimed to be free of phylloxera attack in its high altitude, rocky habitat. Used to create a white varietal wine reportedly possessed of a mildly aromatic fragrance and, in some cases spritzy, delicately crisp flavor.
Save the bottles in a prominent place until you have a few to attack at once. Why a prominent place? Because if you put them in a basement, you'll forget about them.
Phylloxera - A microscopic underground insect that kills grape vines by attacking their roots.
Pip - Grape seeds.
Plan Bordeaux - A proposal for enhancing the economoic status of the wine industry in Bordeaux.
The story is that in 1650, a priest was making wine when an attack of the Turks delayed the harvest. When they realized fungus had grown on some of the grapes, they kept those separate, wondering how they would taste.
Pourriture noble: French term meaning "noble rot"; called Edelfäule in Germany, muffa nobile in Italy. A fungus that attacks ripe grapes in certain areas, resulting in higher sugar content and finer sweet wines. (see Botrytis cinerea) ...
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The result is fruit with a much higher ratio of sugar, suitable for creating sweet wines. The mold can also be harmful when it attacks dry wine vineyards (it is usually called Gray Rot when it is a pest).
performed rapidly at moderate temperatures and without undue oxidation, may be particularly desirable in the production of red sweet wines, which employs short periods of fermentation on the skins, and for use with red grapes that have been attacked ...
Prone to attack by fungal diseases and vulnerable to bunch rot near harvest in some years. Usually requires cluster thinning and ripens in early to mid-October. Recommended mainly for cooler regions of the N. Americam continent.
com March 31, 2008: Koch broadens 'Jefferson bottles' attack
^ Decanter.com June 11, 2008: 'New evidence' in Jefferson bottles case
^ Decanter.com March 15, 2007: Stern publishes major article on 'Jefferson bottles'
^ Stern.
Susceptible to leafroll and fanleaf virus attack it shows better promise in cooler coastal regions. Also found on small acreages in South Africa, Chile, Argentina and Australia. Currently used in jug-wines as "backbone" ingredient.
This fault occurs in wine that has been made from grapes attacked by gray rot, or in wine kept in casks that have been allowed to deteriorate.
Muscular. Big, robust and full-bodied, with an assertive flavor.
Noble.
 See also: Wine, Grape, Region, White, Aroma
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