Broad
Full-bodied but lacking in acidity and therefore also lacking in finesse.
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Broad: A full-bodied, complex wine with plenty of subtleties.
Brunello Montalcino: The Brunello grape is grown in the town of Montaleino in southern Tuscany. It produces a full-bodied, rich, powerful, long-lived wines.
Broad: Means a full-bodied, complex wine with plenty of subtleties.
Broad
A picture-language tasting term. In common with many descriptors for taste, it is hard to give a precise definition for this, but imagine a wine that has flavour and aroma elements that peak across the whole spectrum of tastes and smells, ...
Broad catchall term for red wines with mixed flavors of apples, raspberries, strawberries, etc., and quite typical of Languedoc reds, among others. Compare "black fruit," above.
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Madeira, warm and luscious in both its dry and sweet variations, makes an excellent wine for winter and the holiday season.
Broad, general term for "earthy," "forest floor," "cheesy," "leather," "barnyard" and related aromas and flavors.
Over the hill ...
Fairly broad early drinking wines
Weather Conditions
Very cold temperatures in December 2001 and drought conditions during the latter part of 2001 affected the start of the growing season.
Nutty. Broad descriptor to describe aromas and flavors of nuts in a wine; more specifically hazelnut, almonds, roasted nuts etc.
Wine is broadly classified in the following categories:
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Tart
Broad synonym for "acidic." Sharp, overacid.
Thick
Excessively heavy and dense.
After the broad sweep of the premier cru vineyards of Beaune, itself a large urban sprawl, we arrive at Pommard and then Volnay, two much smaller and more compact villages that lie to the southwest of the Cte de Beaune's capital.
Here is a broad overview of how red grapes are transformed into award-winning wine here at Merryvale.
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Big
A broad, general term for a full-bodied, strong, assertive, robust and flavourful wine. Some people like wines big, others prefer them delicate. Such wines are also said to be chewy.
Tart: Broad synonym for "acidic." A positive term for crisp acidity and good balance.
During the TV broadcast "60 minutes" presented in November, 1991 on CBS, Doctor Serge Renaud gave several millions Americans the opportunity of discovering the "French Paradox".
grafting - broadly, inserting a section of one plant into another so that they unite and grow as one plant. In a viticultural context, usually grafting a European fruiting vine on to a rootstock, often chosen for its resistance to phylloxera .
The tremendously broad range of bouquets, flavors, textures and impressions that pinot noir can produce sometimes confuses tasters.
Today there is a broad range of style of Chianti reflecting the Sangiovese influence and winemaker's touch.
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Bouquet
In the broadest sense, the odour created as a wine ages. Namely, the smell formed by the slow oxidation of the fruit acids and alcohol.
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There's such a broad selection - you wouldn't be exaggerating to say that any bottle of wine can be found at an online wine store.
Bordeaux represents the widest and broadest area of appellation of origin in France besides being one of the most renowned ones.
Australia has seven primary wine regions that are fairly broad geographically. Within these regions you then chisel down to specific regions and that's when it gets interesting.
Wine - that's a pretty broad term in itself. There are as many branches of this topic are there are branches on a grapevine. They go from winemaking, to types of wine, to wine accessories, and much more.
To set up a wine tasting first pick as broad or specific a theme as you like. Beginning tasters might select several wines from a different varietal (grape type) to demonstrate the differences between them.
Body: English wine authority Michael Broadbent puts it well in his Wine Tasting: "the weight of the wine in the mouth due to its alcoholic content and to its other physicai components.
While ros wines may have experienced the shaft for a decade or so when the wine market was flooded with "White Zin" look alikes, many consumers are helping to break ross out of the sweet, "wine cooler" mold and are embracing the broad stylistic ...
It can refer to a broad region, such as Napa Valley in California or Bordeaux in France. Or, it can refer to a more tightly defined sub-region like Oak Knoll within Napa Valley or Mdoc within Bordeaux.
An American Viticultural Area south of San Luis Obispo in California (an area broadly referred to as the Central Coast). One of the few transverse valleys in the US (meaning it points to the sea).
We were conducting a wine-tasting dinner for our company last month with some pretty high-level executives from a broad spectrum of industries.
There were different types of papillae located, broadly speaking, on different areas of the tongue, and there were four taste primaries. Surely each type of papillae contained different receptors tuned to detect one of the four basic tastes.
If you select Chardonnay, the variety of foods your set may have is broader. Pack dark chocolates, olives, smoked cheese with crackers and tropical fruits into a Chardonnay bearing basket.
Sharp-tasting because of acidity. A broad synonym for acidic.
Thin
Lacking body and depth. More critical than light bodied. Implies a bland and uninteresting wine.
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One of Australia's great wine styles, broad and deep, full of character and rich, lush flavours bound in soft complexity. There is nothing quite like them.
Vine
The vine is very vigorous and upright in growth. The leaves are medium in size, broad and usually 5-lobed. The upper surface is a darkish green and shiny, the lower surface is slightly hairy with prominent veins.
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Flabby: Similar to 'fat', meaning the wine has unpleasantly big flavours on the back palate. High glycerine character, soft and broad flavoured.
Flat: Uninteresting, little flavour. In sparkling wines, little or no bubble left in the wine.
Plus, they can provide you with an opportunity to try a type of wine that you might not otherwise be able to experience. Also, it can broaden your tasting range and provide you with more experience to judge your "normal" wines with.
OLOROSO
Spanish term meaning ‘fragrant', and one of the two broad categories of Sherry, that are typically dark and full-bodied.
ONCTUOSITE
A full, mellow, rich wine.
The grapevine flourishes in most of the temperate climates of the world and has been cultivated since before the earliest historical records. Wine has a broad commercial scope, involving one of every ten persons on earth in one or more facets, ...
to wine thought, by some, to be made from certain young varietal grapes obtained from vines planted on land previously used for growing vegetables containing components which "marked" the soil in some way. European tasters use the term in a broader ...
Term employed in certain areas to individualize a particular sector within a broader name (Beaujolais wine, Ctes-du-Rhne wine).
VIN DE PAILLE
It is a naturally soft wine, not to confuse with a sweet aperitif wine (VDN).
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