Fragile: An older wine, fully mature, of such age that it's declining.
Fragrant: General term for a wine with a full, accessible aroma.
Fresh: General term for a wine with good, pleasant fruit aromas and flavors.
Fragile
This doesn't refer to the emotional stability of wine lovers who open their $350 bottle of cabernet to discover it's corked. Rather this describes an older wine, fully mature, but of such age that it's declining.
It is a fragile grape, sensible to dryness as well as cold. Merlot gives a richly colored wine, with body and softness.
The term is also used to describe the fragile quality of a good wine on the verge of decline.
Developed. The state of a wine expressed in terms of its maturity.
ONE - SMELL: Acute, Ancient and Fragile
The nose can sometimes even beat the eyes in the race for setting up the tasting expectations. An aroma can carry from one room to another, beyond the line of sight.
While smell is the most easily stimulated of the human senses, it is also the most fragile. Most of us have experienced detecting the aroma of cooking, maybe even from outside the house.
Vernaccia di San Gimignano is a fragile though fairly reliable and productive vine best suited to chalky clay or silica and limestone soils.
Wine is fragile and needs to be treated with care. Wise counsel suggests it should be kept away from high temperatures, direct light, large temperature swings and vibration, ...
I'd recommend this, despite the cost, because old wines tend to be fragile. The trip alone is dangerous enough, but the longer the wines are exposed to heat or cold, the greater chance that they will really be hurt.
Be gentle at all times. Champagne glasses are very fragile.
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Vine
The vine is vigorous and semi-erect but may be fragile. The leaves are medium to large in size, quite thick, 3-5 lobed and rough with a dark green upper surface and a downy lower surface.
BOTTLE SICKNESS: A temporary condition characterized by muted or disjointed fruit flavors. It often occurs immediately after bottling or when wines (usually fragile wines) are shaken in travel. Also called bottle shock.
There is biting of winemaker's fingernails everywhere because harvest season is a fragile time.
The wines vary from the merely fruity but fragile (drink soon), to those which are both concentrated and have good vigour and acidity. These will be at their best between 2005 and 2010.
Bottle-shock or Bottle-sickness is a temporary condition of wine characterized by muted or disjointed fruit flavors. It often occurs immediately after bottling or when wines (usually fragile wines) are shaken in travel.
A temporary condition characterized by muted or disjointed fruit flavors. It often occurs immediately after bottling or when wines (usually fragile wines) are shaken during travel/shipping. A few days of rest will usually resolve any issue.
Imagine your dismay if your cellar full of recently bottled wines began to effervesce, the gradual build up of gas pushing each bottle of fragile, 16th-century glass to the limit, bottles exploding and corks popping with abandon.
[edit] Bottle shock Also known as bottle-sickness, a temporary condition of wine characterized by muted or disjointed fruit flavors. It often occurs immediately after bottling or when wines (usually fragile wines) are shaken in travel.
Delicate
A well-balanced light wine, with a pleasant but unassertive smell and taste. Complex, with many flavors working together, but not overbearing. The term is also used to describe the fragile quality of a good wine on the verge of decline.
2 Loss of Aroma Hastening the development of the aroma might kill a red grand cru that has past its peak, as the structure of the wine is already very unstable. That is why we never decant an ancient fragile red wine.
The problem is that you can't force production of the wine anywhere you want, anytime you want - Pinot Noir is a fragile grape, easily affected by temperature changes and representative of the quality of its soil.
A tiny but increasing proportion of wines are made using no sulphur at all but they tend to be more fragile than most.
genera of film-forming yeasts may be involved (Pichia, Hansenula, Dekkera) and the production of acetaldehyde and other off-characters is slow and the bulk of the wine is often not affected (particularly in large containers). Films are fragile and ...
Also recommended for Arkansas. Noted for hardiness and bunch rot disease resistance, the grapes should be picked at low sugars to avoid over-ripe, sometimes labrusca-like, flavors. Young shoots reportedly fragile in strong winds.
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