Lush: Wines that are high in residual sugar and taste soft or viscous are called lush.
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Lush
Tasting term for wines with high amounts of residual sugar. Generally used for sweet white wines.
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Lush wines are velvety, soft, richly fruity wines that are both concentrated and fat. A lush wine can never be an astringent or hard wine.
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Describes impression of wines with high amounts of residual sugar. Adjective almost entirely reserved for sweet dessert wines.
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These are lush, lavishly oaked wines that command your attention almost before the cork is pulled.
Tempranillo
Lush in texture, low in tannins, this grape has an affinity for oak. It's renowned in Spain's Rioja region and is very much in vogue today.
Softer tannins with lush fruit making them quite approachable
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I had previously spent many hours among the vines, but they had always been lush with green foliage, either during the flowering, when the nascent green flowerbuds look like bunches of tiny grapes, ...
(Thirty seconds to several minutes is great length.) In a young wine, the difference between something good and something great is the length of the wine.
lush Lush wines are velvety, soft, richly fruity wines that are both concentrated and fat.
Viognier is a variety often described as exotic and lush. It is certainly fashionable, particularly in California, probably as a result of being the grape of the rare and almost impossible to obtain Northern Rhône Château Grillet.
Merlot- "Juicy blueberries and ripe strawberries lure the palate into a meandering river of black fruits, spicy clove and lush plum."
Shiraz- "Generous ripe berry fruit leads to a lush, soft, balanced finish." ...
"With Burgundy," he says, "the fruit is less lush and berrylike, and there's often a little funk that I find very sexy in the right amount at the right time." Mr.
The picturesque, French-style chateau is located on 87 acres of lush land with mature trees that once belonged to lumber baron Frederick Stimson, who used it as a hunting retreat and rural working farm called the Hollywood Farm.
In the Meursault appellation, chardonnay takes on a lush, ripe, "fleshy", "buttery" quality. Even in quality sparkling wines and French Champagne, it is the major varietal used.
Where Cabernet Sauvignon is structured and firm, Merlot is more fleshy and lush. Again, it produces wonderful wines in Bordeaux and the south of France, but also in California, Washington State, Australia, Chile and many others.
You are looking for an end-product that is green to lush gold in color, redolent of white peach, mineral, white flowers, citrus flowers and lively crisp brightness on the palate. The carbonation will be about half that of regular sparkling wine.
Lychee flavours and the smell of lush roses and spice make the best of these big, fat, warm wines very good indeed.
Nelson, New Zealand
Fragrant, floral, pretty wines of no great pedigree but certainly pleasurable.
Its personality is transformed if yield is restricted, when it offers lush, concentrated dark stone fruit and black cherry flavors and aromas offset by smoke, herb and bitter almond notes.
Consider ice wine. Jackson-Triggs 2003 Proprietor's Reserve Icewine, Vidal, Niagara is an outstanding ice wine from Niagara with lush flavors of pineapple, apricot and honeycomb. Pair this with creme caramel, butter cookies or blue cheese.
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More supple than a Cabernet these wines want to please. Lush, ripe berry flavors are accompanied with varying intensities of spice. From Bordeaux to Napa Valley to Chile and South Africa, there are so many wineries from which to choose.
Zinfandel
Zinfandel is one of the most popular grapes grown in California and is known for its robust tannins, well-rounded aromas and lush flavors. Jammy, berry, fruit and black pepper are the most common descriptors.
Botrytis: A Latin term for fungus encompassing all the rots, which can affect grapes and damage the resulting wine. In one specific form however, it does not harm the grapes and produces a lush complex sweet wine commonly called "desert wine" or ...
(though rare) white grape of the northern Rhone Valley of France where it makes the expensive wine known as Condrieu. In the early 1990s, more than thirty top California producers began making viognier to much acclaim. The wine has an opulent, lush ...
A soft, silky, lush mouthfeel
Venturi
A valve that draws air into a fast flowing liquid
Vinous
A wine without a specific, distinguishing odor.
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