Diluted :
Signifies that the wine has been diluted (mixed) with water.
Disgorging : ...
Dilute
A term given to wines whose aromas and flavors are thin, as opposed to concentrated.
Disgorging
Using the pressure of gas in the wine to remove the collected sediment from bottle-fermented sparkling wine.
Dilute: A description of a wine whose aromas and flavors are thin and watery.
Dilute sulphuric acid: Add about 250 millilitres of concentrated sulphuric acid to about 750 millilitres of water. Unless you have previous experience handling sulphuric acid, don't even think of doing this dilution yourself.
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Rather dilute wines lacking strength and vinosity.
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Liquid: dilute in wine Powder: dissolve in water
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Fining white and red wines ...
Unlike other plants which will abort excess fruit, such as the peach, the vine will try and ripen the whole crop - which if large will increase the likelihood of producing a dilute wine.
thin A synonym for shallow; it is an undesirable characteristic for a wine to be thin, meaning that it is watery, lacking in body, and just diluted.
The final product is diluted to 40 percent alcohol content (80 proof).
The age of the cognac is calculated as that of the youngest eau-de-vie used in the blend.
Compared to the wines of decades long since disappeared, dilute efforts that they were, weak in colour and character, thin and emaciated, today's wines seem to win hands down. This is the stance the advocates of the New Bordeaux will take.
Get two glasses & a good quality red, at least 5 years old, one glass will have the red poured normally at room temperature 20C ish and in the other glass, the wine is diluted with 50% water. Both need to be the same temp.
I can't honestly say I'm persuaded: "Straight," over ice and even diluted one-to-one with water, it was simply too alcoholic to make a good table beverage for my tastes.
DOC regulation that stipulate the relatively bland Trebbiano and Malvasia grapes needed to account for at least 10% of the finished blend, with consequent higher acidity and diluted flavors.
hollow
Also known as shallow, hollow wines are diluted and lack depth and concentration.
honeyed
A common personality trait of specific white Rhône wines, a honeyed wine is one that has the smell and taste of bee's honey.
The berries swell from increased water content that dilutes the concentration of the acids. Flavor compounds and tannins also begin to build.
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The perfect wineglass enhances the wine drinking experience.
Finish: The final taste left by a wine after you spit or swallow it. Wines made with dilute or underripe fruit tend to have very short finishes while those that are highly concentrated or strong in extract can linger for 30 seconds or more.
WATERY: Wine that is thin, diluted, or otherwise lacks concentration of fruit. Sometimes, an excessively rainy growing season may impart this to a wine.
Source of much of the red and rosé wines of southern France, light and bland in general, often used to dilute thick, over-ripe wines. When treated well in can turn out lush, soft, gently aromatic reds and rosés.
Caffè Americano
Literally, American coffee. It may simply be brewed coffee in a coffee cup, or espresso diluted with an equal amount of hot water, and then served in a coffee cup.
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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. This will make it easier to see the test results.
Yield: The amount of wine produced from a given area of vines. The less produced the more concentrated the wine will be. Too high a yield will make for dilute, watery wine.
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If not strong or flavorful, the wine is considered "feeble". "Feeble" wines are sometimes encountered among those vinified in a year where late rain just before harvest diluted desirable grape content.
Granted, over-irrigating will produce wine that is low in alcohol and colour, and has a thin, weedy and dilute palate. You come across these regularly in wine tastings. They certainly stand out at least in their mediocrity.
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The initial impact of a wine. If not strong or flavorful, the wine is considered "feeble". "Feeble" wines are sometimes encountered among those vinified in a year where late rain just before harvest diluted desirable grape content.
Some hosts of tasting events provide pitchers of water so participants can rinse their glasses, rinsing with water between wines of the same type is less effective than simply pouring out the wine; water might dilute the next taste.
Wine served during the symposium usually followed a real and proper meal and it was diluted with water: the one in charge for the delicate duty of dilution was the symposiarch, the master of ceremony, ...
Says itself of a very weak wine, diluted.
ARAMON
Black type of vine of the Mediterranean South, very in favour after the phylloxerna crisis, but in retreat today.
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- A pronounced quality of strong herbaceousness in generally unpleasant proportions. Flavors and aromas of wilting or half-cooked green bell peppers, asparagus, green beans, etc.
VELVETY - Much like silky, perhaps richer.
WATERY - Thin, dilute.
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