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Breed
The depth and distinctive character of a wine, resulting from the gestalt of soil, grapes and wine-making techniques used in its production.
Breed
Similar to good bloodlines and handling, as in racehorses; the result of soil, grapes and vinification techniques that combine to produce depth and distinctive character in a wine.
Breed
Describes a wine from fine grapes produced in a classic manner. Highest quality.
Breed
Having the character, type, and qualities of its origin.
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Breed: according to Michael Broadbent, English wine authority, breed is "a distinctive and distinguished quality stemming from the combination of fine site soil, cépage (grape type), and the skill of the vignernon (winemaker)'.
Breed: Character and complexity, usually refering to high quality.
Bright: As a color, transparent; as a flavor, high but not excessive in acidity.
Brilliant: A visual term: Exceptionally clear and transparent.
Breed
Denotes wines judged to have reached their optimum expectations of aroma, balance and structure. This term is sometimes used for wines produced from the best grape varieties.
Breed: Used for wines of high quality, with elegance and finesse.
Brilliant: Describes a wine that has a shining, clean appearance, with luminous reflections.
Broad: Means a full-bodied, complex wine with plenty of subtleties.
BREED
Term reserved for wines from the best grape varieties, the so-called "noble grapes". Denotes wines judged to have reached classical expectations of aroma, balance, structure and varietal character.
Breeding: Snobbish term referring to the parentage of certain wine grapes. Yep, it finally happened: wine grapes are bred like race horses. Er, that is, not exactly like that but you know what I mean. See Hybrid.
Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute
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crossingA crossing is the result of breeding two Vitis vinifera plants. This is distinct from a hybrid which involves using American vines. cruLiterally, a growth-a particular vineyard of merit.
It was he who discovered the process of halting the alcoholic fermentation by the addition of spirit to the must, thus giving rise to a new breed of wine.
Some of the best-known hybrid grape breeders include:
Francois Baco: responsible for the development of Baco Noir
Eugene Kuhlmann: Originating from Alsace and known for the varieties Lucie Kuhlmann, Marechal Foch and Leon Millot ...
ÉLEVAGE (BREEDING)
Together of the operations intended to prepare the wines with ageing until the setting out of bottle.
EMPYREUMATIQUE
Qualifier of a series of odors pointing out the flaring, cooks it or smoke.
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One of the most important aspects of the new breed of small stores is that the owners and their employees have actually tasted every one of the wines. How can you tell? Easy: Look for their own tasting notes.
There are around 42,000 hectares (104,000 acres) cultivated world-wide,[citation needed] which makes Müller-Thurgau the most widely planted of the so-called "new breeds" of grape varieties created since the late 19th century.
Helps make wines of classic breed, intensity and complexity that often need to bottle-age for at least 5-10 years in order to reach peak flavor condition.
European rosé s are a completely different breed from the American blush wine.
Over the next century, breeders made many complicated crosses of these obscure American species.
VARIETAL CHARACTER (see also BREED, HERBACEOUS, GRAPEY).
The particular flavor characteristics associated with a grape picked at optimum maturity - ...
Most wines have verve and breeding, with excellent fruit balanced by good acidity and good backbone. A few of the best are worth trying now but are few and far between. The Bonnes-Mares from Bouchard Pere et Fils is a classic example.
Much maligned breed of mainly Australian winemakers who, in their off season, fly off to somewhere in Europe and make wine the 'new world' way out of the indigenous grapes of the region.
Elevage is a French term that is a sort of vague one, meaning the "breeding" or "noble traits" of a wine, sort of like you would talk about a fine racehorse or a blue-blooded princess.
Vitis labrusca A breed of grapes native to North America. See also Foxy. Vitis vinifera A breed of grapes native to Europe. Volatile acidity The level of acetic acid present within a wine.
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The Vitis International Variety Catalogue is one of three grapevine databases of the German Federal Centre for Breeding Research on Cultivated Plants. Dr.
"It's a naïve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."
James Thurber (1894-1961),
American humorist, illustrator. Cartoon caption in New Yorker (27 March 1937) ...
Noble
Of perfect structure and high quality and breeding. The term is applicable to great wines at any stage of their development.
Nose
Wine taster's term for the overall smell. The sum total of all odors in a wine.
Yes, you heard that right: This aromatic grape is the offspring of a union between a white and a red, a grape-breeding enterprise that you might expect would yield pink fruit ...
Elegance A complimentary term to describe wine that has class, breeding, finesse and style.
Esters: Esters are compounds of alcohol and organic acids that give flavours and bouquet to a wine.
To be scientifically correct, these are cultivars because they have been developed by selective breeding through human intervention over thousands of years, but throughout the wine world they a termed varieties.
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Nebbiolo was introduced into Australia from the University of California, Davis, for the vine breeding programme of CSIRO at Merbein, ...
Too low the humidity in the air will dry off and ruin the cork. On the contrary, too humid the air will breed moisture and insects. Ideally the humidity should be between 70 and 80 %.
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Contact your local university to ask if it has a grape breeding program and can offer information.
Solera: The lowest row in the tiers of barrels where wines are aged, used for the oldest wines. Also a system of breeding which consists of improving young wine with the addition of older wine.
Olmo of UC Davis from a crossing of Muscadelle de Bordelais and (White) Riesling. Probably the most successful of the attempts to breed high quality/quantity white wine grapes for specific use in California.
A crossing is the result of breeding two grape varieties of the same species, for example the German Bacchus cross between a Silvaner-Riesling and Müller-Thurgau. Many crosses occur spontaneously in nature. Contrast crossing to hybrid.
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