Cleanskin
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In Australia, cleanskin wine is a term for bottled wine that does not carry a label or any other identifying marks.
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Clean The Bottle First
Clean around the top of the bottle immediately after removing the cork. A slightly mouldy or old cork can affect the wine as it is poured.
Clean out a clear plastic bottle. Prescription pill bottles with the label removed work well.
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Drill an 1/8 inch hole in the lid and a hole the size of an average ballpoint pen in the bottom of the bottle.
Clean
Wine with no bacterial or chemical faults and a simple direct flavor
Complex
Depth of flavor and nuances, an interesting wine that reveals lots of different aromas and flavor characteristics ...
Clean
Having a fresh balance of aroma, appearance and flavor.
Closed
Having not yet reached full potential through aging; typically associated with young, big reds such as Cabernet Sauvignon or Bordeaux.
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Clean
Fresh, crisp aroma, appearance and flavor.
Closed
Not yet showing complexity or layers of flavor, common in young reds.
Clean
A well-constructed wine with no offensive smells or tastes.
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Clean
Fresh, with no discernible defects; refers to aroma, appearance and flavor.
Clean: Fresh on the palate and free of any off-taste. Does not necessarily imply good quality.
Clean: Describes a wine that has no off-flavours or other nasties in a wine. Usually used to describe a wine that is refreshing.
Closed: Describes a wine without much smell (same meaning as "dumb").
Clean
In wine tasting this term refers to wines that do not have any noticeable unpleasant or out of the ordinary odors or flavors. Modern wine making has ensured that most wines today are clean.
Clean
Overall description for a wine with no unpleasant or "off" aromas or tastes. Devoid of defects; free of any anomaly or foreign taste.
Cleanskin - In Australia, wine bottled without a commercial label, usually sold cheaply in bulk quantities.
Cold Duck - A mixture of red and white sparkling wine that has a high sugar content.
Clean: A wine with no offensive odors or tastes.
Cloudy: A dull, hazy color in wine, more often common in homemade wines once they start to go bad.
Cloying: Overly sweet, and lacking the correct amount of acidity to give the wine balance.
Clean: having no off-odors or off-tastes.
Clone: a vine so produced to better adapt to climatic or geologic conditions. You will often hear in discussion of the grape of "the Romanée-Conti clone of Pinot noir as opposed to the "Volnay" clone.
Clean: A wine with no offensive odors or tastes.
Cloudy: A dull, hazy color in wine.
Cloying: Overly sweet, and lacking the correct amount of acidity to give the wine balance.
Clean: A wine devoid of any faults.
Closed: A wine lacking aroma. Usually used when there is an expectation that the wine will eventually present additional aromas upon aging.
Clean
A wine which doesn't have any off-flavours or taints is called 'clean'. Most wines on the market these days are 'clean' ...
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Clean the outer surface of the wine bottle. Dry the glass completely.
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Clean, mild nose exhibiting a touch of citrus and mineral. In the mouth, bubbles are coarse, flavor is clean with some salty mineral. There is enough acidity to match fairly well with food.
Clean:Fresh on the palate and free of any off-taste.
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Cleanse the palate.
Most tastings will supply you with crackers or other palate-cleansing substances such as lemon sorbet to clear the mouth and prepare it for the next sampling.
Thoroughly clean and rinse the two syringes and a test cup. Use the large syringe to extract exactly 15ml of juice then carefully squirt it into the test cup. For red wine, dilute the juice by adding exactly 30ml of water.
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Off-taste Unclean, tainted or diseased wine; not necessarily undrinkable.
A pleasant wine, clean and without any abnormalities.
Closed :
Said of a wine which has little olfactory expression, and has not opened as it should.
2 A Carafe Have a clean carafe ready. Rinsing it with a little bit of the wine will be better as the chemicals in the carafe will react with the wine producing unwanted flavours.
Glasses should be clean and dry and filled with only a small sample of wine (about a quarter of the glass). Wines all have certain components and characteristics in common.
barnyard
An unclean, farmyard, fecal aroma that is imparted to a wine because of unclean barrels or unsanitary winemaking facilities.
cleanA wine without winemaking flaws or bacterial spoilage. cloneA selection within a grape variety which exhibits certain characteristics distinct from others in the group.
Clean. Devoid of defects; free of any anomaly or foreign taste.
Closed. Not revealing its character. Many fine wines go through a closed period in youth. See also Austere.
Coarse.
Clean
A wine with no off smells or flavors.
Clone
A group of genetically identical, asexually propagated plants that can be traced back to a single plant.
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corked A corked wine is a flawed wine that has taken on the smell of cork as a result of an unclean or faulty cork. It is perceptible in a bouquet that shows no fruit, only the smell of musty cork, which reminds one of wet cardboard.
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Bottled water. Guests will need to quench their thirsts and clear their palates with something other than wine.
The flavours are clean and fruit-rich, rather than the occasionally dirty and questionable character of more ancient wines. They are textured, rich, may we suggest even hedonistic?
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Can be used both positively (pleasant, clean quality adding complexity to aroma and flavor) and negatively (barnyardy character bordering on dirtiness).
Elegant: Describes a wine of grace, balance and beauty.
Empty: Flavorless and uninteresting.
Most white wines, including inexpensive chardonnays, ferment in stainless steel tanks, which are inert, easy to clean, and facilitate control of the fermentation temperature. These wines ferment at cool temperatures - usually around 55o F.
Simple rinsing in clean warm water with some detergent if required is adequate.
Allow the glasses to drip dry after the washing. When they are dry, wipe them with a clean and soft cloth until they are sparkling clean.
It's not generally recommended that you use the dishwasher to clean your crystal or even your cheap wine glasses.
They also begin cleaning and repairing tractors and machines that they will be using all spring and summer. It is also time to order Bordeaux mixture needed for spraying as protection against mildew and other diseases and pests.
In the winery, sulfites may be used to clean and sterilize equipment, kill harmful bacteria, prevent wine from oxidizing, guard against spoilage at bottling or inhibit spoilage microbes on the grapes.
Ripe apples describes a full, fruity, clean smell associated with some styles of Chardonnay wine. Fresh apples does the same for some types of Riesling.
Chardonnay - Chardonnay is a white wine which can range from clean and crisp with a hint of varietal flavor to rich and complex oak-aged wines. Chardonnay typically balances fruit, acidity and texture.
Crisp. Describes wines that are clean, and possibly a bit on the tart side. Opposite of soft. Wines that are crisp are typically higher in acid, and go well with food.
Cru. Literally, a growth or a particular vineyard of merit.
It has long been known that red wine helps keep arteries clean. The question has always been, how? Was it the antioxidants in the red wine?
A tasting term that describes a wine that feels clean and slightly brittle in your mouth; it is the opposite of ‘soft’. Crispiness is usually due to high acidity. Crisp wines are usually relatively light in body and go well with food.
Crisp: The acidity gives the wine a clean feel in your mouth. Often crisp wines are light in body.
Cru: A French term for ranking a wine's inherent quality, i.e. cru bourgeois, cru classé, premier cru and grand cru.
Musty
Musty is a bad mouldy aroma resulting from improperly cleaned storage vessels or an infected cork.
Mutage
Applied to fortified wines, mutage is the French term for the process of stopping the fermentation by the addition of spirit.
Fresh: Having a lively, clean and fruity character. An essential for young wines.
Fruity: Having the aroma and taste of fruit or fruits.
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Nelson, New Zealand
Freshly zippy, brightly aromatic, clean and crisp with red capsicum and gooseberry characters. Lively, moutwatering.
Wellington, New Zealand
Big, pungent wines, crisply flavourful, intense, clear.
I'm assuming you have a clean, clear glass with which you can easily swirl the wine.
Verdicchio yields a pale, straw-colored wine of good acidic balance offering subtle, crisp, clean white fruit flavors and aromas offset by nuances of citrus, almonds and tree blossoms, finishing on a slight bitter note.
Synonyms
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A characteristic imparted by improperly cleaned barrels or various other processes performed incorrectly. Usually detected first in a wine by the smell of the cork stopper or from a barrel sample.
Can either be a positive or a negative. In a positive sense it can denote powerful characters of clean, rich and hearty soil, as in 'an earthy complexity', but it can also describe wines that are too dense and sometimes dirty.
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 See also: Wine, Fruit, Grape, White, Aroma
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