Intense: Wines that express themselves strongly. How strong is the aroma or flavor in relation to the total expression?
Intense - This describes a wine which packs a punch flavor-wise. An intense wine explodes in your mouth with flavor, making a big impact on your palate. This doesn't mean that wine is necessarily full-bodied or heavy.
Intense
A term that describes wines that express themselves strongly, either aromas and flavors, or of the wine's overall impression.
Intense
Deep and complicated.
Intricate
Subtly complex and with many elusive nuances.
Intense. Used to describe wines that express their character powerfully.
Legs. the streams of liquid formed on the sides of the wine glass after the wine is swirled, indicative of the body and texture of the wine.
The intense fruit and deep color of Cabernet was shown to be well suited for blending with Sangiovese but banned in many Italian DOCs.
This intense sweetness partially inhibits yeast and fermentation can be very slow, lasting for months.
Nose: Intense mineral and spicy lime citrus. Nice stony quality.
Palate: Good citrus fruit (lime) and hints of spice (ginger?). Excellent edge of acidity - great for food matching - and a stony mineral character.
Potent:Intense and powerful.
Press Wine (or Pressing):The juice extracted under pressure after pressing for white wines and after fermentation for reds. Press wine has more flavor and aroma, deeper color and often more tannins than free-run juice.
Creates intense reds blended with Garnacha, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Pinot Noir, and Mourvèdre.
Alvaro Palacios ...
Bonarda: Intense red with violet hues; strong tannins; black fruit and plums; ages well.
Cabernet Sauvignon: Adapts well to all Argentine regions. Complex aromas of tobacco, black pepper, red fruits. Full-bodied and structured through aging.
Hard
Intense but undeveloped wines with pronounced tannins.
Harmonious
Fruit, acid, and tannin in perfect balance.
Deep-hued, intense, spicy red known best for the wines of Madiran in south-west France, but also the foundation of Uruguay's best reds and grown in Argentina
Tempranillo (red) ...
POTENT: Intense and powerful.
PRIVATE RESERVE: This description, along with Reserve, once stood for the best wines a winery produced. Some care need be taken when buying wine with this designation as it has no legal definition.
Wines possessing intense flavors which seem to affect every sensory nerve in the mouth. Usually slightly high glycerin component, slightly low acid.
MUSTY ...
A thick, intensely-flavored, glossy brown sauce that is made by thickening a rich veal stock, enriching it with diced vegetables, tomato paste and Madeira or sherry, then reducing it until concentrated.
WHEN TO DRINK: Its intense fruit, balance and alcohol will probably hold it better than a lighter-style rosé, but pink wines are still best enjoyed young and fresh; drink up over the next year.
Usually produces an intense red wine with deep color, low tannins and high acid. Century-old vines still exist in many regional vineyards and allow production of long-aging, robust red wines with intense fruit and enhanced tannic content.
Potent:
Strong, Intense, Powerful ( Got It ? )
Round:
Describes a wine
that has a good balance of fruit and tannins,
with good body as well.
aromaticUsed to refer to a wine, particularly white wines, with intensely floral or fruity aromas, such as Muscat or Viognier.
Intensely full, with many nuances of flavor, all smoothly interlaced.
Delicate. A well-balanced light wine, with a pleasant but unassertive smell and taste.
Describes a wine of persistently complex and intense flavors
Diammonium phosphate/DAP
A compound that may be added to the must in order to supplement available nitrogen required to ensure yeast health.
Big A wine with intense flavor, or high in alcohol.[5]
Biscuity A wine descriptor often associated with Pinot noir dominated-Champagne. It is sense of yeasty or bread dough aroma and flavors.
This results in a fortified wine that has incredible depth and intense fruit flavors. The wine is made from a variety of hardy grapes that produce intense aromas.
Spätlese - (literally late harvest) wines produced with late harvested grapes, generally more intense and structured than kabinett.
Potent: Describes a strong, intense, powerful wine.
Robust: Describes a full-bodied, intense and vigorous wine.
Round: Describes a well-balanced wine in fruit, tannins and body.
Seductive: A wine that is appealing.
When well made, Chardonnay offers bold, ripe, rich and intense fruit flavors of apple, fig, melon, pear, peach, pineapple, lemon and grapefruit, along with spice, honey, butter, butterscotch and hazelnut flavors.
The aromas offer ripe, appealing red-berry fruit with subtle nuances: Intense raspberry scents catch the attention first, then a whiff of strawberry, with a sharper fruit note behind the berries ...
French Chenin Blanc has an intense, fascinating aroma; its high acidity balancing the sweetness and allowing some of these wines to age for many years - particularly some of the sweet versions.
It is a time of intense activity in any vineyard, a defining point in the process of making wine.
This grape is intensely aromatic and acidic. Depending on the growing region and winemaking techniques it can range from grassy, herbaceous, flinty, and green, to aromas of peach, fresh hay and melons.
The red wine bears a resemblance to Cabernet Sauvignon wine, with which it is sometimes blended, but is usually not so intense, with softer tannins. Matures earlier than Cabernet Sauvignon, with mid-late ripening. Moderate cold-hardiness.
Grape is generally used to make dry, crisp, rather intense white wines in the Alsace, parts of Burgundy and in Austria. In the latter country it is known as the Weissburgunder.
High quality oils have an intense array of aromas and flavours. A list of descriptors for olive oils are also given below. The palate complexity of olive oil comes from two unusual (to wine tasters anyway) attributes; bitterness and pungency.
When the wine is treated as a dry white wine it will still display fruit characters with an intense palate-as in the white wines of Anjou.
Intense? Just as a large part of enjoying food is seeing how it appears on the plate when it arrives, so it is with wine. What's a happier sight than a glass that's yet to be sipped?
Give it a whirl, and smell. Really stick your nose in the glass.
Earthy is a more intense smell than woody or truffle scents.
elegant Although more white wines than red are described as being elegant, lighter-styled, graceful and balanced red wines can be elegant.
Cabernet Sauvignon is a late-ripening variety, with small, deeply colored, thick-skinned berries that yield dark, intensely flavored, tannic, long-lived wines that often require years of aging to soften and become drinkable.
As with other wines from the Sauternes district, the grapes achieve their intense sweetness after being effected by the botrytis mold, which removes the water from the grape.
Gorgeous garnet in color, the 2005 Silver Oak Napa Cab exudes elegance with intense fruit, well-rounded structure placing defined tannins front and center and plenty of persistence on the finish.
Flavour & Character
Intense raspberry flavour.
Vinification
As for Cabernet Sauvignon: Fermented in stainless steel or oak. Fermentation temperature not critical because of robustness of grape. Matured in old or new oak.
A subjective description for a heavy, intense red wine with depths of complexity; may also refer to a wine of this type that's "closed" or "dumb" (see below) but that shows a sense of hidden glories.
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Your eyes remind me of the intense color of the water in the Caribbean.
I loved the way you softly played those major chords.
Your smile is big and bright, it reminds me of (insert attractive movie star of choice here).
An aromatic wine has pervasive and intense aromas. Certain grape varieties are said them to be "aromatic".
Ascorbic acid :
Anti-oxidizing agent strictly regulated by the EEC who impose a limitation of 150mg per litre of wine.
Syrah/shiraz
A popular, intensely flavored grape that's notable in Rhone, France. It's also famous in Australia and is grown increasingly around the world. Often bold and velvety with black pepper, smoky ripe berry and meaty notes.
Perfumed Describes the intense aromas found in some wines, especially in floral white wines.
Raw Describes a young and undeveloped, often tannic wine; typical of red wine sampled from the barrel.
BRAWNY: Used to describe wines that are hard, intense, tannic and that have raw, woody flavors. The opposite of elegant.
BRIARY: Describes young wines with an earthy or stemmy wild berry character.
To obtain an even more intense color, once an hour, during the initial fermentation the winemaker takes out of the tank a certain amount of juice.
Mouth filling
Wines possessing intense flavours which seem to affect every sensory nerve in the mouth. Usually slightly high glycerin component, slightly low acid.
A term used to describe wines in which the flavour of acid, or intense tannins, dominate the fruit flavours. Wines that are described as austere in their youth often have an excellent capacity for aging.
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Balance ...
Robust: Means full-bodied, intense and vigorous, perhaps a bit overblown.
Round: Describes a texture that is smooth, not coarse or tannic.
Perfumado (perfumed) Wine with intense aromas.
Persistencia (persistence) Duration and quality of the sensations which linger on after the wine has been swallowed.
berrylike
As this descriptive term implies, most red wines have an intense berry fruit character that can suggest blackberries, raspberries, black cherries, mulberries, or even strawberries and cranberries.
Wellington, New Zealand
Big, pungent wines, crisply flavourful, intense, clear.
Canberra, Australia
Fresh, tasty, capsicum and tropical flavoured dry whites, often blended with semillon.
A wine that looks clear and bright, has a pronounced, intense nose, shows good fruit and balanced acid, sweetness and alcohol, and has a long finish might be an inexpensive wine.
Luscious-Rich, opulent, and smooth; most often said of sweet wines but also intensely fruity ones.
Maderized-Wine that has oxidized; has brown or amber color and stale odor.
Mature-Fully developed, ready to drink.
This is a shame, because the better German wines, made from one of the world's great white grape varieties, Riesling, offer wonderfully fresh, intense citrus flavours, often with a touch of sweetness to counter the naturally high acidity.
When you plunk down $15 to $30 (or more), you greatly increase your odds of finding a truly remarkable wine - one with an evocative combination of intense aromas and flavors and a balance between its many elements.
Ready to taste what that all means?
Alicante: A good blending grape. One of the few red grape varieties that has red pulp as well as red skin. Makes intense, dark purplish wines that may be rather neutral in flavour and low in acid. Use it to add colour to short term wines.
Big
A description of wines that are very full or very intense.
Blanc
French word meaning ‘White’.
 See also: Wine, Grape, Fruit, Region, Red
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