Maturity: this is a measure of the wine's readiness to drink, which is not the same thing as its age.
Maturity: The period in a wines life that can be described "after youth but before its decline". It can be 3 years or 3 decades depending on the wine.
Mature: is a complimentary term as opposed to old or faded.
Maturity: The stage in the aging of wine that has developed all of its characteristic qualities to perfection.
Mead: A wine common in medieval Europe which is made by fermenting honey and water.
Maturity
age of the wine, often can be seen in the color
Médoc
important red wine district in Bordeaux ...
Maturity: The stage in the aging of wines when they have developed all of their characteristic qualities to full perfection.
Fruit maturity is not, however a simple matter of sugar content. Acid content is every bit as important to quality and flavor and even more so to aroma constituents.
At full maturity, Raboso Piave is one of the great Italian reds, excellent with furred and feathered game, red meat,
grilled meats and well-matured cheeses.
Nevertheless, a backward wine would be expected to take longer to reach optimum maturity.
balance:In a balanced wine, no single component is either too dominant or lacking in intensity.
The state of a wine expressed in terms of its maturity. A well-developed wine is one that has matured to the right degree and in the correct way; an undeveloped wine is one that needs aging.
Distinguished.
The amount of grape clusters that are permitted to reach maturity on any given vine has a direct correlation to flavor concentration.
Developed: Refers to the maturity of a wine.
Dirty: Covers any and all foul, rank, off-putting smells that can occur in a wine, including those caused by bad barrels or corks. A sign of poor winemaking.
Mellow A wine with a soft texture that is nearing the peak of its maturity.
Midpalate A tasting term for the feel and taste of a wine when held in the mouth.
In cool climates, as in northern Europe and the eastern United States, however, lack of sufficient heat to produce ripening may necessitate harvesting the grapes before they reach full maturity.
With most vineyards reaching their maturity, light rains arrived in mid-September and a few panic-stricken winemakers hired helicopters to help dry out the huge crop weighing on the vines.
ripe A wine is ripe when its grapes have reached the optimum level of maturity. Less than fully mature grapes produce wines that are under ripe, and overly mature grapes produce wines that are overripe.
Wines produced in this place are characterized by full body, evident tannins and require long period of aging before reaching full maturity.
The Baby Boomers story marshals statistics to suggest that wine enthusiasm increases with maturity, prompting analogies with fine ageworthy wines.
Monitoring the maturity of grapes to ensure their quality and to determine the correct time for harvest
Crushing and pressing grapes
Monitoring the settling of juice and the fermentation of grape material ...
This means that they can grow in cooler climates, like the Willamette Valley and Burgundy, and still achieve maturity.
Past its peak in maturity.
TOCAI FRIULANO
A white-wine grape widely grown in the Fruili region of Italy. Also grown in Argentina. Possibly identical to the Sauvignon Vert grape of Chile.
The term used to describe the cellaring of wines until the they reach full maturity.
In high quality grapes, picked at the right point of maturity, the pH, total titratable acidity, and specific gravity will all be in their correct ranges, and no adjustment is required.
Bottle age Attractive development and maturity of the wine in the bottle. White wines: a creamy, vanilla, honeyed bouquet. Dessert wines: a mellow, honeyed flavour. Red wines: a softness through the integration of flavours.
The particular flavor characteristics associated with a grape picked at optimum maturity - (eg: distinctive "berrylike" taste of California Zinfandels, "blackcurrants" of Cabernet Sauvignon etc).
VEGETAL (see also EARTHY, LEAFY, YEASTY/YEASTLIKE).
Drying Out Describes wine that has reached maturity and begun to decline, losing its fruit flavor (or sweetness in a sweet wine); the wine becomes unbalanced as acid, alcohol or tannin begin to dominate.
Developed. A tasting term referring to the maturity of a wine.
Dry. A wine that tastes as though it has no remaining natural grape sugar. By law, a minuscule amount (less than 0.2%) of natural sugar can remain.
When the Rhône has an exceptionally hot year for its crop and the wines attain a super sort of maturity, they are often quite rich and concentrated, with low to average acidity. Often such wines are said to be fat, which is a prized commodity.
Developed: Refers to the maturity of a wine.
Elegant: Describes a wine of grace, balance and beauty.
Empty: Flavourless and uninteresting.
Macroclimate - The climate of a large area, such as an entire wine-producing region.
Maturity - The stage in the aging of wine that has developed all of its characteristics to perfection.
In general, the best wines come from environments whose temperate climates insure a long growing season and full physiological maturity of the grapes.
Ripe:The stage at which the grapes' many components have reached maturity. As a grape ripens, sugar content increases and acidity decreases.
"Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die." --- Attributed to the late Julia Child.
The berries are medium-sized, usually round, transparent but becoming opaque on maturity and golden yellow in colour with reddish spots. They ripen early and dry out readily but are very often left to develop a high sugar concentration.
Tannin is a necessary component of good wine, especially good red wine, and is most evident in the first few years of maturity. Eventually, it subsides during the maturation process.
BOTRYTIS "Botrytis Cinerea", a mold or fungus that attacks grapes in humid climate conditions, causing the concentration of sugar and acid content by making grapes at a certain level of maturity shrivel.
Young
In simple wines signifies youthful freshness; in finer wines, refers to immaturity, wines as yet undeveloped.
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Designation appearing on bottles (in French, Vendange Tardive) where grapes were allowed to hang on the vine beyond physiological maturity. This over-ripens grapes, usually producing wines that are high in ALCOHOL and off-dry to sweet.
Underipe
Underipe is the wine's flavour when grapes that fail to reach optimum maturity are vinified.
BACKWARD
Describes a wine that retains youthful characteristics despite considerable aging. This usually indicates that it will take longer to reach maturity and requires even more aging in the bottle or barrel. Opposite of forward.
Ripe
A mature wine that's ready to drink. If used to describe the grapes, this term means they were picked at sweet full maturity and richness.
Robust
Full-bodied, powerful, heady.
Glycerine (Glycerol)
This is a most useful additive for adding to rough wines to disguise any harshness or immaturity.
These wines are produced from grapes that haven't achieved full maturity. They are low in alcohol, light and easy to drink despite having high natural acidity. The German equivalent is trocken or halbtroken ...
Millerandage - A French term referring to a viticultural problem in which grape bunches contain berries of greatly differing size and levels of maturity. Caused by cool weather during flowering.
Face it - your friends are now sophisticated enough to have a place worthy of a dinner party, so they've probably left their sloppy evenings in the past. You should too and join everyone into maturity. To that end, let's get drunk on wine.
After tasting several dozen examples of a specific wine, through its many years of maturity, a person with a gifted palate gets to know how a wine develops, and can take an educated guess whether a particular wine will one day "open up".
Yeasty - A bready smell, sometimes found in wines that have undergone 2ndry fermentation, such as Champagne; very appealing if not excessive.
Young - In simple wines signifies youthful freshness; in finer wines, refers to immaturity, ...
Chapitalization - The practice of adding more sugar to the 'must' than was developed naturally in the grapes that have been crushed. This is allowed in some areas of the world that have difficulty bringing grapes to full maturity.
When the grapes reach a certain sugar concentration, sufficient for alcoholic fermentation and meeting the demands of the winemaker, this is sugar ripeness. It is distinct from physiological ripeness which involves other aspects of grape maturity.
Basque emmigration to Uruguay has meant that this grape has a South American home too, where its vinification is more traditional and versions of good old fashioned mellow maturity can be found.
Greenish hues also may indicate immaturity at harvest. Light straw yellow through medium gold are the usual colors of young whites.
It is distinct from physiological ripeness which involves other aspects of grape maturity. sulfurThis is an important element in winemaking, with a wide variety of uses, often as part of the compound sulphur dioxide.
 See also: Fruit, Grape, Region, Wine, White
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