Graceful: Describes a wine that is harmonious and pleasing in a subtle way.
Graceful: Describes a wine that is subtly harmonious and pleasing.
Neutral: Describes a wine without outstanding characteristics, good or bad.
Pedestrian: Plain.
GRACEFUL
Describes a wine that is subtly harmonious and pleasing.
GRAFTING
Process of reproduction of the plant, by grafting a branch on a selected root stock in order to development a solid vinestock.
harmoniousReferring to a pleasant and graceful balance of components in a wine. hautA French term meaning high, higher, or upper in a geographical sense.
The graceful 2003 Antiguas Reservas Cabernet Sauvignon ($15) features gorgeous aromas of mint, flint, chocolate, currant and plum, and complex flavors of blackberry, cocoa and gravel.
A term for wines that are well balanced and express themselves gracefully.
Headspace
The air space in the bottle between the wine and the closure, or in a tank between the wine and the lid.
Herbaceous, herbal ...
elegant Although more white wines than red are described as being elegant, lighter-styled, graceful and balanced red wines can be elegant.
flabby A wine that is too fat or obese is a flabby wine. Flabby wines lack structure and are heavy to taste.
The soil is a gravelly terrain called "Graves," give this wine it's graceful ability to mature with time. Within the vineyard's top-soil exists a deep impenetrable rock called, "Molasse.
Round: A mature, full-bodied wine that is smooth and graceful.
Sake: A colorless Japanese wine made from fermented rice. It is usually served warm in a very small cups. Alcohol content ranges from 12% to 16%.
Round: Mature, full-bodied wine which is smooth, graceful.
Sangria: Great in the summer, it is a cheaper wine flavored with fruit (peaches, oranges, apples).
Sasa: Sweet wine high in sugar.
With the former having a reputation for punch and substance and the latter for graceful elegance, however, this would seem to leave sufficient room for Morey to be just about anything.
But the idea is the same: a case of wine that will mature gracefully and gain some wisdom, symbolically mirroring the child.
Balance
A well-balanced wine is a primary goal of the wine maker. Such a wine blends all of its components gracefully: the fruit, tannin, acid, and sugar. A wine's balance may only be realized after some aging.
An astringent, harsh, bitter substance found in the seeds and stems of grapes, Tannin is important in the making of good red wines, aiding them in long and graceful aging. The amount of tannin can be increased by enhancing extraction.
The aroma of Roussanne is often reminiscent of a flowery herbal tea. Unlike some better known white wine grapes, wines based on Roussanne can mature gracefully, holding up well a decade or more after bottling.
Grüner Veltliner finds its finest balance in loess, the fine-grained, densely compacted glacial dust that has blown in over many thousands of years. The best wines from this type of soil will age gracefully for many years, ...
The Montepulciano wine is usually ruby-red with purple highlights and perfume of violet, cherry, wild berries, licorice and tobacco. Though it is good drunk young, is a wine that ages gracefully in bottles.
Graceful: Describes a wine that is subtly harmonious and pleasing.
Grapey: Describes simple flavors and aromas associated with fresh table grapes. Green: Tasting of un-ripe fruit. Not necessarily a bad thing, especially in a Riesling.
 See also: Wine, Red, Grape, Character, Aroma
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