Fading

Fading: Describes a wine that is losing color, fruit or flavor, usually as a result of age.

FADING: Describes a wine that is losing color, fruit or flavor, usually as a result of age.

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A wine that is losing colour, fruit or flavour, having passed its peak.
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This replaces critter wines, the fading fad in which the cute animal on the label was a bigger selling point than the wine inside the bottle.

Many of the red wines were delicious at five years and fading by 10, while most of the rest of the successful examples were not yet ready. The former are now past it. The latter still offer much.

Tired
Worn-out, past its prime, describing a wine that is fading. Wines can also be tired from traveling or being subjected to treatments such as racking and fining; these wines recover with rest.

Diseases and adversity : it is susceptible to downy mildew, especially on clusters, powdery mildew and tolerant enough discretamnte is resistant to frost. Do you suffer from sagging, at the end of the aging spine fading rapidly causing possible ...

It exhibited dark chocolate and cedar, as well as burnt toast. The blackberry fruit still showed but was fading. Still had the trademark pepper and spice that you would expect.
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See also: Fruit, Wine, Full, Grape, Quality