Hazy
Tasting term referring to unfiltered or unfined wines.
Hectare
Hectare (ha), the most commonly metric measurement of area in viticulture, is 10,000 square meters, equivalent to approx. 2.5 acres.
Hazy: Used to describe a wine that has small amounts of visible matter. A good quality if a wine is unfined and unfiltered.
Heady: Used to describe high-alcohol wines.
Hazy: A visual description for a wine that's less than clear. In this age of industrial-produced wines, a hazy sample is a rarity, but some "unfiltered" wines may appear less brilliant than most.
Hazy
A visual description for a wine that's less than clear. Some "unfiltered" wines may appear less brilliant than most.
Heady
Wine with an exceptionally "forward" or "fragrant" aroma. Also refers to wine high in alcohol.
HAZY: Used to describe a wine which is unfined and unfiltered.
HEARTY: Used to describe the full, warm, sometimes rustic qualities found in red wines with high alcohol.
HAZY
Refers to wines with slight particulate content when viewed against the light. Occurs most often in unfiltered or unfined wines where there is no need to worry.
Hazy
A visual description, used to describe a wine that has small amounts of matter. A good quality if a wine is unfined and unfiltered.
Heady ...
Ah, those lazy, hazy, crazy days ... Summer, whether oppressively hot and humid or delightfully sunny and pleasant, has a way of diminishing ambition and kicking our (or at least my) engines into low gear.
Cloudy: A dull, hazy color in wine, more often common in homemade wines once they start to go bad.
Cloying: Overly sweet, and lacking the correct amount of acidity to give the wine balance.
Cloudy: A dull, hazy color in wine.
Cloying: Overly sweet, and lacking the correct amount of acidity to give the wine balance.
Coarse: Rough, inelegant texture.
clarityUsed to describe the a wine that is not hazy or murky, but visually clear. ClassicoItalian term indicating that wine comes from the heart of a specific region.
The bloom, that hazy coating on ripe grapes, is actually a collection of single-celled plants called yeast. There are approximately 6,000 yeast cells per ounce of fermenting must.
About two-thirds of the contents are a thicker, hazy mixture. This is most probably olive oil, which the Romans commonly used to "float" atop wine to preserve it from oxidation. Cork closures, although known to exist at the time, were quite uncommon.
After a dry winter and warm spring June and July were abnormally cool with high cloud and hazy conditions with some showers.
Unsound condition of hazy, dull-looking wine. Not to be confused with the condition of a recently shaken old wine whose deposit hasn't yet settled.
Cloying
Too much sweetness and too little acidity.
Cloudy
A cloudy wine is visually dull and hazy because particles haven’t been removed during winemaking. This sediment can be removed by fining or decanting.
Dull
A wine whose appearance, aromas and flavors, and/or general style are hazy and unclear.
Earthy
An odor or flavor suggestive of earth or soil, usually undesirable.
Rack again, the wine should be less hazy, more clear each time you rack. Wait 2-3 months.
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Clarity: is the wine clear and bright (as it should be) or is it hazy or murky?
Intensity: is the color pale or deep?
Condition: An out of condition wine is one that is hazy, contains suspended matter and/or has .
Some beers are naturally hazy but we, the drinkers, have come to expect crystal-clear beers over the years, many commercial brewers have used this as a selling point, thus turning us away from anything not 'perfect'.
You could cheat and put it in the freezer to really chill it down, but some wines react negatively to the sudden and drastic temperature changes by clouding up and looking hazy in the glass.
Both a fine wine's bouquet and flavor should be focused. Focused simply means that the scents, aromas, and flavors are precise and clearly delineated. If they are not, the wine is like an out-of-focus picture-diffuse, hazy, and possibly problematic.
If they are not, the wine is like an out-of-focus picture: diffused, hazy, and possibly problematic.
 See also: Bottle, Wine, Grape, Taste, Aroma
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