Balance: The appraisal that a wine has flavour components in complete harmony, no single component dominating.
Balance The harmonious relationship of the components of wine - acids, fruit, tannins, alcohol, etc. - resulting in a well proportioned, or well balanced, wine.
Balance
Harmonious balance of wine elements - acids, fruit, tannins, alcohol, resulting in a well proportioned, or well balanced, wine. This is a vital attribute.
Balance: a balanced wine is one whose constituents--sugar, acids, tannins, alcohols, etc.--are evident but do not mask one another.
Balance
A well-balanced wine is a primary goal of the wine maker. Such a wine blends all of its components gracefully: the fruit, tannin, acid, and sugar. A wine's balance may only be realized after some aging.
Balance
A much used, but rarely defined term in wine tasting. A wine is said to be balanced when no single component is overwhelming the wine, and the overall impression is pleasing.
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Balance
A tasting term. A wine is balanced when all of its characteristics work together in harmony, with no single element - fruit, TANNIN, ACIDITY, ALCOHOL - overpowering anything other.
Bâtonnage
French term for stirring of the LEES.
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Balance
A tasting term. Wines said to have balance have a harmonious combination of tannin, acidity, texture and flavour. This is a vital attribute.
Balance: The way in which a wine's key components, including fruitiness, sweetness, acidity, tannin, and alcoholic strength, co-exist??. A well-balanced wine displays a harmony of components, with no single element dominating.
Balance - The best wines have perfect balance, meaning that all the components of the wine (the structure, fruit, alcohol, secondary flavors, etc.) are all in equilibrium, none sticking out in the forefront too much.
Balance
Harmony among the wine's components -- fruit, acidity, tannins, alcohol; a well-balanced wine possesses the various elements in proper proportion to one another.
Big
Powerful in aroma and flavor; full-bodied.
Balanced: Indicates that the fruit, acid, wood flavours are in the right proportion. A wine is well balanced when none of those characteristics dominates. Wine not in balance may be "acidic," "cloying," "flat" or "harsh." ...
Balance
Balance is what a wine taster looks for in a wine. A balanced wine tastes of acid, tannin, sugar, alcohol and flavor, all coming together in harmony.
Balance
A tasting term that describes wines that have a harmonious combination of tannin, acidity, texture, alcohol and flavour. This is a vital attribute.
Balthazar
A large format Champagne bottle, equivalent to sixteen standard bottles.
Balance: The relationship among alcohol, sweetness. fruitness. acidity, and tannin food in a wine. Well-balanced wines have a pleasant proportion of all these elements. A wine's balance may only be realized after some aging.
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One of the most desired traits in a wine is good balance, where the concentration of fruit, level of tannins, and acidity are in total harmony. Balanced wines are symmetrical and tend to age gracefully.
Balance: Balance refers to the harmonious presence of different elements in wine: sweetness, acidity, fruit, tannins and alcohol, such that no single element dominates.
Balance
An important tasting concept describing the gestalt of elements in the bouquet and palate of a beer.
Balling Degrees
Scale of the density of sugars in wort, developed by C J N Balling.
Balance. A tasting term, states whether the fruit, acid, wood flavors etc. are in the right proportion. A wine is well-balanced when none of those characteristics dominates.
Balanced: A wine in which acidity, sweetness, and flavor are in pleasing proportions.
Baume: A scale for measuring the degree of potential alcohol by weighing the must. A different scale is used for Brix.
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Balance: A wine has balance when its elements are harmonious and no single element dominates.
Balthazar: An oversized bottle which holds the equivalent of 12 to 16 standard bottles.
Balanced: The proper harmony of acidity, fruit and, where appropriate, tannins. A wine may show many good characteristics, but it will not be complete unless it is balanced.
Balance: A favorable term used in tasting, denoting a balance of alcohol, sugar, tannin, acids, and weight offering a balance of flavor.
Barrel: Oak and steel containers used for fermenting and aging wine.
Balance Harmonious blend of alcohol, acid, tannin, fruit, acidity, sweetness, and wood, which make up the harmonious whole.
Batonnage Stirring of Lees,
Bead Bubbles in sparkling wine. Fine, long-lasting bubbles are the most desirable.
Balance
The relationship between a wine's alcohol, acid, residual sugar and tannin. A wine is considered well-balanced when no one of these components stands out significantly from the rest.
Balance
The relationship among the three basic elements of acidity, tannin and alcohol. If these elements are all in harmony, a wine is said to be well balanced.
Balanced
Fruit, acidity, tannins and alcohol and other elements are well proportioned.
Big
Powerful in aroma and flavor; full-bodied.
Balance - A reference to the levels of dominance of the various flavors and components found in a wine. When well balanced, the components blend harmoniously and no particular flavor or characteristic dominates.
Balance: The level of harmony between acidity, tannins, fruit, oak, and other elements in a wine; a perceived quality that is more individual than scientific.
Balance: Describes a wine with harmonious elements, in reference to the balance of acids, tannins and fruit.
Balance
The relationship between a wine's acids, sugars, tannins and alcohol. When all are in harmony, a wine is well-balanced.
balance:In a balanced wine, no single component is either too dominant or lacking in intensity.
Balanced
A wine is balanced when all the component parts, such as *tannins, *fruit, *acidity and possibly sweetness, are correctly matched and in harmony, and none stands out inappropriately.
Balance: Harmony or "being in tune" among the various components of wine, fruit, tannins, alcohol and acidity.
Balance: A subjective term used in wine evaluation. A wine in which the tastes of acid, sugar, tannin, alcohol and flavor are in harmony is said to be in balance.
WELL-BALANCED
Contains all of the essential elements - (ie: alcohol, flavors, acid or astringency etc) - in good proportions.
Balance : Indicates the proportion between these four components : alcohol, acidity, sugar and dry extract. A wine is well-balanced when none of those characteristics dominates; the balance is harmonious.
Balance. The relationship of the components of the wine including alcohol, residual sugar, acid and tannin. When no one component stands out against the rest, the wine is said to be well-balanced, an indication of quality.
Balance
A well-balanced wine is a wine with various components that exist in complete harmony. In these wines, no quality has been over pronounced or deficient in the aroma, flavour or aftertaste.
Balanced
All desirable elements present in proper proportion: Acidity, fruit and, where appropriate, tannins.
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Balance
Used to describe a wine in which there is perfect harmony between all the component parts; fruit flavours, sugar levels, alcohol levels, acidity, textures and oak.
Balanced wine rich in botrytis from better producers who selected for noble rot affected fruit
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balanced and appropriate for type
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Balance the intensity of flavors in the food and wine
Example: A mildly flavored food like roast turkey pairs well with light-bodied white and red wines like sauvignon blanc and Beaujolais, ...
BALANCE
The sense you get from a wine when all the components have good equilibrium.
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In order to balance out these temperature variations, you can greatly improve your wine drinking experience by chilling your red wines and warming your white wines for short periods of time just before serving.
Wine with a balanced level of alcohol acidity and sugar
Heady :
Wine with a high alcohol content, warming ...
PRUNING FOR BALANCE
With time, it was discovered that better-quality fruit will grow on vines that are pruned back to distribute the bearing wood evenly over the vine.
Look for a balance between a really talented, well- educated, eloquent person who is passionate about wine and one who is warm, unpretentious and can convey that passion without being uncomfortable.
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Bilanciato
Balanced wine with many harmonius elements
Botte
Cask or large barrel made of oak or sometimes chestnut ...
Elegant Describes balanced, harmonious, refined wines; subtle rather than a highly-extracted blockbuster.
Fading Describes a wine that is losing color or flavor, usually as a result of age.
acidifyThe technique of adding acid to the grapes, must or wine to improve the balance.
Aging the balance and complexity of some wines can improve over time; this is influenced by the type of grape, when it was designed to be consumed, and how it is stored.
Balanced
A wine in which acidity, sweetness, tannin and flavor are all in perfect harmony. Balance
The pleasurable proportional correctness of a wine's many aromatic and taste components, but especially sugar, alcohol, acidity, and tannin.
See also Balance.
Amber. The deep yellow color present, for example, in a fine, aged Sauternes.
Aroma. The smell of a wine.
Aromatic. Possessing a clearly identifiable fragrance, reminiscent of fruits or spices.
Astringent.
Alcoholic A wine that has an out of balanced presence of too much alcohol.
Aroma The smell of a wine. The term is generally applied to younger wines, while the term Bouquet is reserved for more aged wines.
Addition of sugar in the vintage, controlled by the law, in order to obtain a good balance of the wine by increase in the high content in alcohol when this one is too weak.
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BALANCE - Refers to all of a wine's components of acidity, alcohol, sweetness, astringency, and flavor (odors perceived in the mouth along with taste) are harmonious; no single component is obtrusive.
Balance: Good balance refers to a wine in which the acids, tannins, alcohol, fruit and flavour are all in pleasing proportions.
Barrique (French) The regular Bordeaux oak barrel of 225 litres.
Blanc (French) White.
 See also: Wine, Fruit, Region, Grape, Acidity
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