Easy
Undemanding but just tasting good wine.
Egrappage (French term)
The French term for destemming.
Easy Recipes
If you want to ease in to wine making, another option is to try out a homemade recipe that doesn't require special equipment or excessive ingredients, such as Dandelion Wine.
EASY
Undemanding but pleasant, doesn''t require good taste, just tastes good.
ELEGANT
What to say when there is great balance and grace in the wine, but you can''t quite find apt words of description. Almost a synonym for "breed".
EASY
Undemanding but pleasant, doesn't require good taste, just tastes good.
EGG WHITE
Left over albumin obtained by discarding the yolks from eggs. Used in fining red wines after barrel aging to remove excess (usually bitter) tannin.
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Easy to drink, ready to enjoy. May imply unexpected readiness in a wine that usually requires aging.
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Easy to say, de Jesus acknowledged. Now it's Amorim's goal to prove it. "Now that we have defeated TCA, we can move on to scientifically demonstrate what wine makers and wine consumers know empirically.
Easy now, the title is NOT misspelled, and this article has nothing to do with between-the-sheets romance.
An easy way to track the consequences of blending is to use a spreadsheet, with formulas that do the math for you automatically as you enter the numbers for the participating wines.
The easy way to see if sulfites are a problem are for you is to eat a food high in natural sulfites - say, dried apricots. On average, 2oz of dried apricots have 10 times the sulfites as a glass of wine does.
It's easy and inexpensive to put together a cook's stash of fourteen bottles.
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This is easy to understand, because syrah is relatively simple to grow and vinify and produces a distinctive, richly flavored red wine that appeals to wine drinkers who find cabernet sauvignon too astringent.
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While port is easy to taste, it can be ridiculously complicated to buy. Since port is blended from a variety of grapes and usually from several harvest years, there are a myriad of styles and names for different ports.
Serving wine is easy - but read below for some tips on how to serve wine to really bring out its flavors and to allow the wine to show its best: ...
It would be quite easy to pen a whole essay on the Doctor vineyard, so named because the wine, on the recommendation of a local physician, was administered (with a positive result it seems) to Archbishop Boemund II when on his deathbed.
The bilateral cordon is the most commonly encountered, but the unilateral method is becoming increasingly popular as a relatively easy method of vine training.
The description is often applied to young, fruity wines that are easy to drink.
Fat. Full of flavor. See also Full-bodied.
Feminine. Fine, intricate and delicate.
Fine.
Accessible A wine that is easy to drink without an overwhelming sense of tannin, acidity or extract.
Acidic A wine with a noticeable sense of acidity.[2]
Aftertaste A term for the taste left on the palate after wine has been swallowed.
Fresh, easy to drink wine.
Balanced: Indicates that the fruit, acid, and wood flavors are in the right proportion. A wine is well balanced when none of those characteristics dominates. Wine not in balance may be acidic, cloying, flat, or harsh.
Merlot became a brand name wine in the 1980s because of its smooth, rich, easy-drinking flavors and texture.
Attractive: A lighter style, fresh, easy to drink wine.
Balanced: Indicates that the fruit, acid, wood flavors are in the right proportion. A wine is well balanced when none of those characteristics dominates.
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The origins of Albana di Romagna are so ancient that it is no longer easy to distinguish between history and legend.
The development of New Zealand's enology did not certainly have an easy life.
It is easy to forget that as recently as 1933, Prohibition was still in place in the USA.
Easy to learn about wine - what could be easier than sitting on your couch and surfing the web to learn about wine varietals, ratings, food and wine pairings, and the latest in wine accessories?
Reading a wine label can be as easy as reading the alphabet or as difficult as trying to decode a foreign language, it all depends on whose label it is and where it is from.
Wow, here's a really easy one. If you want to leave the bottle on the table and let us pour the wine ourselves, we'd be delighted.
It wasn't easy. "I had incredible fights with my architect about wanting good insulation," he says. But by 1996 he had installed the first completely privately financed solar energy system in Italy. He added a geothermal energy system as well.
The easy way to sanitize everything at once is to use your dishwasher at the high heat setting, with appropriate detergent.
Bentonite is probably the choice of most winemakers, as it is easy to prepare and easy to use. It is prepared as a 5% slurry by mixing 50 grams of bentonite powder into one litre of hot water.
Choosing grapes to make wine is easy, if you know how you want the wine to taste. You can make wine from any kind of grape, but the best wine comes from grapes that are traditionally used to make commercial wines.
NUTRIENT: Provides an easy accessible form of the nitrogen, amino acids, trace elements & vitamin B1 required by the yeast.
This results in single varietal wines that are generally softer, higher in alcohol, easy to drink and which can be appreciated much earlier than their Cabernet Sauvignon counterparts.
Until recently, Grüner Veltliner had always been considered a high-production commercial grape, best suited for the simple, easy-drinking wines that flow so freely in the ubiquitous Heurigen (wine pubs) of Austria.
Since grape juice is primarily sugar and water, the balling scale was used for a quick and easy "sugar analysis" of juice. The original Balling scale contained a slight inaccuracy however. Dr Brix (pronounced bricks) discovered that and corrected it.
Accessible, approachable Easy to drink, harmonious.
Acid, acidity (malic) The aroma of raw cooking apples; (tartaric) mouth- watering, refreshing, sometimes detectable on the tongue, giving wine an essential bouquet, crispness, ...
For particularly badly tainted wines it is relatively easy if you know what to look for. TCA which is implicated in more than 80 per cent of cork tainted wines typically has a musty, mouldy or wet hessian character.
A lighter style, fresh, easy to drink wine.
Balance. A tasting term, states whether the fruit, acid, wood flavors etc. are in the right proportion. A wine is well-balanced when none of those characteristics dominates.
The good news is that not all tasting sessions are taken as seriously as you might think, and that the essential elements of tasting are easy to learn and will help you to learn about what kinds of wines you enjoy - or dislike - and why.
Riddling:In making sparkling wine, the process of moving the sediment remaining in the bottle from the second fermentation to rest on the cap for easy removal.
Not always easy to vinify. Normally produced under temperature controlled fermentation in stainless steel vessels. Generally, requires a long ageing period in wood in order to soften.
Open: Expressive and easy to taste; the opposite of "closed."
Oxidized: Possessing a tired or stale aroma or taste due to excessive exposure to air. An oxidized white wine may have a darker than normal or even brown color.
Often blended with grapes that have more character, Trebiano's main claim to fame is that it is easy to grow, and it yields more wine per vine than almost any other grape. The wines it makes tend to be thin, and boring.
At first, this seems like an easy thing to discern. I mean, we all know what sweet tastes like, right? So, duh. Dry is the opposite of sweet. There. Next question please.
Well, it's actually not that simple.
Suited to temperate zones, the vine is high-yielding and the grape produces an "easy" white wine with lightly spicy, floral flavors and mild intensity.
Northland, New Zealand
Best of the region's reds, soft and easy natured, with hints of plum and raspberry. Light.
Canberra, Australia
Plum fuirt aromas and flavours are typical of these quite fine, densely flavoured wines.
Generous: A wine whose characteristics are expressive and easy to perceive.
Gewürztraminer: A sweet and spicy white grape popular in eastern France, Germany, Austria, northern Italy and California.
Glacé: Iced.
Attractive:
A lighter style, fresh , easy to drink wine.
Balance:
A tasting term, states whether
the fruit, acid, wood flavors
etc. are in the right proportion.
Approachable
Drinkable, easy to enjoy
Aromatic
Descriptive term for wines of a markedly flowery, spicy or grapey character ...
Powerful: Powerful describes a wine with lots of very easy to discern flavour and alcohol.
Proof: The measure of the degree of alcohol by volume present in a wine is called proof.
Light
A term used to describe the body or color of a wine. A light wine is usually easy to drink and not high in alcohol. Muscadet is a light white wine. Beaujolais is an example of a light red wine.
M
Mature
Ready to drink.
SOFT: Describes wines low in acid and/or tannin. Usually an easy drinking wine, and can be quite fruity.
SOUR: Similar to TART in sensation, but usually imparts more of a green or underripe fruit quality, than by acids.
Gulpable: Light and refreshing and, well, easy to drink. Not usually applied to the fancier line of wines.
Hay: Similar to "grass," only more so.
The skills are easy to learn and anybody can become a good taster if they want. With the few basic techniques outlined here, you can take the first steps in the tasting process, which leads to a better appreciation and enjoyment of wine.
A wine whose characteristics are expressive and easy to perceive.
Graceful
Describes a wine that is harmonious and pleasing in a subtle way.
Generous
The term for wines whose characteristics are expressive and easy to perceive.
Gewurztraminer
Distinctively flavored pink grapes used for fine white wines.
This operation, comparatively easy with small fermenters, becomes difficult with large, tall fermenters of up to 100,000-gallon (380,000-litre) capacity. In large units the fermenting must is drawn off near the bottom and pumped back over the cap.
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