Cutting

Cutting Edge: Stylistic, hip.
Closed: Describes wines that are concentrated and have character, but are shy in aroma or flavour.
Complete: A full-bodied wine rich in extracts with a pronounced finish.

CUTTING
A piece of grape vine, usually 10 to 20 inches long, cut from a dormant vine in wintertime for use in propagating new vines in spring.

Cuttings of Carménère were imported by Chilean growers from Bordeaux during the 19th century, where they were frequently confused with Merlot vines.

Vine cuttings are called slips or scions. These are usually grafted onto rootstock that has been specially cultivated to combine growth vigor with resistance to disease. They are then put into sand for one season. This is called bench-grafting.

Scion: A cutting used in grafting, containing a bud of the desired vine.
Second Crop: Fruit that matures after the first crop has been picked; the clusters are usually smaller and the shoots weaker.

Before and after cutting out the hole. Use the hole to center and align the label.

Cuttings are made from an original "mother vine" that exhibits key characteristics, such as resistance to certain diseases or desired cluster size, taste, smell, etc.

Cuttings from the oldest vines found in the Dry Creek and Amador regions of California are notable for their ability to produce superior juice; eg.

Cutting circular holes in an upended kitchen table, 19th-century cellar master Antoine Müller not only made the prototype of all pupitres - essentially wooden boards holding dozens of bottles (a primitive prototype is shown on the left - true ...

Barbera came to Australia with cuttings imported from the University of California, Davis in the 1960s.

At first look I thought the seal was wax and I'd have to go through the usual cutting and chiseling to get it off. When I discovered the wax was actually plastic I thought life would be easier. Au contraire, no, no, no.

This can be achieved by adjusting how hard the vines are pruned in the previous year, or by simply cutting off the bunches when they have just formed.

Next time you mow the lawn or trim your hedge, take a good sniff of the cuttings.

By March, the pruning is nearly finished and the vinyardists take cuttings to make bench-grafts and root them in sand. They also begin cleaning and repairing tractors and machines that they will be using all spring and summer.

The wine is very consciously based on the wines of the Haut-Medoc in Bordeaux, France, and indeed even the grape cuttings originate from there. This wine forever changed the landscape of Italian wines.

A good one will have a blade for cutting the foil and a lever for easier opening. To use this corkscrew simply cut the foil with the blade under the second lip of the bottle.

Grapevines are traditionally planted by making cuttings of existing plants. This means that Chardonnay vines growing in Napa Valley are actually from the same plant as the Chardonnay growing in Chablis, France.

Over the last 25 years or so, the island of Sicily has tranformed itself from an overgrown grape juice factory into a hotbed for cutting edge, superripe, fine wines.

Curve imposed upon a climbing stem by cutting and folding in order to encourage fruit growth.
Aroma :
Also known as fruit, flavour or bouquet, the aromas are the smells given off by the wine.

Grafting
Grafting is the process of growing a cutting of vine on a hybrid phylloxera-resistant rootstock.
Grand Cru
French term for "growth". It historically refers to the best vineyard sites.

Walk through your lawn after cutting the grass, and you'll never mistake this aroma, often found in Sauvignon Blanc.

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In Australia Gregory Blaxland was thought to be making wine from Pinot Noir in the 1820s after arriving in Sydney with vine cuttings from the Cape in 1805.

While some thought this grape had been destroyed by phylloxera, cuttings were taken to Chile in the mid-nineteenth century, where phylloxera has not arrived yet. The grape is known for problems with coloure and oidium, and produces low yields.

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A signature descriptor for Sauvignon Blanc and a pleasant one unless overbearing and pungent, smelling just like your lawn after cutting the grass.
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Does not propagate well from hardwood cuttings and grafting to a suitable rootstock, such as Dog Ridge or Tampa, is recommended if to be cultivated in deep sandy soils.

Moderately large acreages can now be found in the Okanagan region of western Canada where, according to local lore, it was originally planted in the late 1970's in lieu of a shortage of select clone Riesling cuttings.

Pruning is the aggressive cutting back of growth on a vine, in order to control and improve its output.
Pulp
A grape's pulp is it flesh. A typical grape consists of about 75% pulp by weight.
Pump over ...

Calling upon of the same wines origin, the assembly is very different from cutting, having, him, a pejorative connotation.
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