Cuvée (or Cuvee on some English language labels) is a French term used on wine labels to denote wine of a specific blend or batch. The word originates from the French word cuve meaning "vat".
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Cuvée: French winemaking term relating to the specially blended base white wine that will be made to undergo a secondary fermentation in the production of sparkling wines. It also refers to a blend of different wines in general.
Cuvée: The entire contents of a Cuvé made at any one time.
Decant: Transferring red wine from a bottle to a decanter for the purposes of removing the crust or to allow the wine substantial exposure to air so that it can breathe.
Cuvée
Cuvée is a still wine that was purposely blended with the idea of eventually making champagne.
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De Chaunac is a French-American hybrid grape named after its producer, an eastern Canadian winemaker.
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Many producers in the Rhône Valley produce special, deluxe lots of wine or a lot of wine from a specific grape variety that they bottle separately. These lots are often referred to as cuvées.
Cuvée: This word literally means “vat,' but the French word refer to a particular blend.So, blended wines, in short.
Cuvée
French term for a specific blend of wines, usually of different varietals and vintages, combined to make Champagne.
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Cuvée: A specific vat of wine selected for its quality.
Cuver: v. To ferment wine in a vat. Also: expr. To sleep off (~ son vin / one's drunkenness).
Cuvier: The building within a château where the wine is made.
Cuvée
The word Cuvée comes from the French word 'vat'. The term is unregulated, but often refers to a blended wine of high quality. This is part of the process of making champagne, though not exclusive to sparkling wine styles.
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Tête de cuvée
The French term for a Champagne producer's best bottling.
Texture
A wine's feel or consistency in the mouth.
Cuvée - (Coo-vay)
Literally "vat," typically means the blend of different grapes that make up a specific wine.
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Cuvée. A blend of many lots of still wines, particularly Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, designed to become a well-balanced Champagne or sparkling wine.
Cuvée:A blend or special lot of wine.
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Decanting :A technique that removes sediment from wine before drinking.
[edit] Cuvée A wine blended from several vats or batches, or from a selected vat. Also used in Champagne to denote the juice from the first pressing of a batch of grapes.
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Vintners Cuvée XXIX Zinfandel, $10. When I'm looking for the quintessential Zinfandel I gravitate to Rosenblum Cellars. Kent Rosenblum is a veterinarian, but he sure knows what to do with grapes.
" Cuvée literally "vatful".e. g. one "lot" of wine from a given appellation. ^ back to top
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Débourbage French for "settling." Débourrement French for "bud-break.
There are a number of domaines making Savennieres that merits attention, led by Florent Baumard who produces three cuvées, those of the Clos du Papillon being the best in my opinion, and by Claude Papin of Chateau Pierre-Bise.
Champagne is produced in many styles and each one of them is created with a base wine - called cuvée - made of different wines from different vintages, in case of the so called Sans Année or Non Vintage, ...
Most Champagne firms make at least three categories of wine: non-vintage, vintage, and prestige cuvée.
Cuvee (French term)
Cuvée is a French term referring to the blending of several grape varieties.
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Before bottling, the winemaker conducts blending trials, combining small samples of cuvées or batches of wine from different grape varieties, or vineyards, or of different vintages, in varying combinations until the wine tastes best.
They used to be called "Tête de Cuvée". They are the best among the best: Chambertin, Clos Vougeot, Corton, Corton-Charlemagne, Montrachet, Musigny, La Tache ... Only the name of the vineyard figures on the label of Bourgogne "Grand Cru".
Wine: It has a higher acidity. It is often made into cuvées and sparkling wines. It produces extraordinary wines in very good years.
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Crush - The grape harvest or vintage measured in tonnes.
Cult Wines - Wines for which buyers will pay large sums of money because of their desirability and rarity.
Cuvée - A wine blended from several vats or batches, ...
under pressure after pressing for white wines and after fermentation for reds. Press wine has more flavor and aroma, deeper color and often more tannins than free-run juice. Wineries often blend a portion of press wine back into the main cuvée for ...
Cuvée (French) A blended wine or a special selection.
Domaine (French): Property or estate.
Doux (French) : Sweet.
Walker Bay: Bouchard-Finlayson (Pinot Noir Galpin Peak & Tête de Cuvée); Hamilton Russell (Pinot Noir & Ashbourne P.N.); Southern Right (Pinotage).
Period during which, after the vintage in red, the solid matters remain in contact with the juice in fermentation in the tank. Its length determines the colouring and the tannic force of the wine.
CUVÉE (VINTAGE)
Contained of a tank.
 See also: Wine, Grape, Region, Vineyard, Vintage
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